Andrew Prokop
speaker
268 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 15 Sep
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The Clinton administration.
The beginning of George W. Bush's administration.
And really the core idea of neoliberalism was that markets know best, that the state, when it tries to interfere with markets, is highly likely to screw things up.
The Great Recession then happens at the end of George W. Bush's administration, leading into Barack Obama's.
Barack Obama continues to rely to a great extent on the economist establishment in crafting his response to the Great Recession.
He very much believed this worldview that
Economists did have special knowledge of some kind that he wanted to have considered in policymaking.
And so it was really the post-Obama years when economists were gradually and in some cases suddenly pushed from the lofty perch that they held.
Well, what happens next is kind of two different processes unfolding in each of the two major parties that have some similarities, but are also kind of fundamentally different on the Republican side.
It's really pretty simple.
Donald Trump wins the primary.
And once he wins, much of the previous Republican establishment wins.
is going to be on its way out.
He has no interest in them.
The party is increasingly steered by his own preferences.
And he has no use for highfalutin academic debates, arguing big picture principles and economic models in front of him.
And while there are certain economists who do hold
prominent positions in the Trump administration, they generally hold those positions if and only if they are saying what Donald Trump wants to do anyway.
Donald Trump is not interested in the wisdom of economists.
Donald Trump is interested in whether economists can lend their imprimatur and expertise to his own policy agenda that he wants to implement.
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