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Sustaining Capitalism: Bipartisan Solutions to Restore Trust & Prosperity
In their upcoming book, Sustaining Bipartisan Solutions to Restore Trust & Prosperity , the Committee for Economic Development's Steve Odland and Joe Minarik lay out a clear plan for how business and policy leaders can generate prosperity for business and society now, all while making capitalism sustainable for generations to come.
Making capitalism work for all Americans requires bold leadership from beyond the policy community. It is America s business leaders who have the needed experience on the front lines of the economy to help course-correct our economic system. Yet for too long, too many have stayed on the sidelines and avoided the public square.
How can business and policy leaders strengthen capitalism without understanding the current forces that threaten it? And how can they address these challenges in a polarized political environment? Look no further than Sustaining Bipartisan Solutions to Restore Trust & Prosperity . The book offers insights as to how both business and policy leaders
Learn more at sustainingcapitalism.com.
Making capitalism work for all Americans requires bold leadership from beyond the policy community. It is America s business leaders who have the needed experience on the front lines of the economy to help course-correct our economic system. Yet for too long, too many have stayed on the sidelines and avoided the public square.
How can business and policy leaders strengthen capitalism without understanding the current forces that threaten it? And how can they address these challenges in a polarized political environment? Look no further than Sustaining Bipartisan Solutions to Restore Trust & Prosperity . The book offers insights as to how both business and policy leaders
Learn more at sustainingcapitalism.com.
- GenresEconomics
200 pages, Hardcover
Published February 1, 2017
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August 23, 2018
This book is interesting for me.
For one, I aggree with the authors on about 70% of the issues brought up in the book. The wonky stuff on reforming the process rules in the house and Senate is great. Advocating for public election financing is inspiring (it's my single most important issue). We agree on a lot of areas of tax policy and reform (although I thought their plan was both to harsh on the poor, and oddly enough, the rich as well).
On the other hand, we sharply disagree on the matters of healthcare. The Authors embrace the tired centrist approach of "market based healthcare reform" and "unleashing the markets" and all sorts of fantasys in that effect. There is currently no rich nation with anything close to a free market healthcare system. Only poor nations have that, and it's not exactly a success story. Nor is it compatible with a lot of the aspects of our advanced healthcare system (which has market concentration approaching levels close to monopoly in some regions).
Some of the ideas are downright hilarious. The mere mention that private Insurance companys could (or would) compete with medicare and bid to cover Seniors to lower prices was a laughable concept (Medicare was created primarily because such insurers did NOT want to insure seniors, who use a lot of healthcare services).
Really, I dare say they are utter trash on healthcare policy (sorry, but it must be said).
Their dedication to centrist politicaly philosophy is aslo fairly annoying. If your a progressive, you will roll your eyes at the reverence for centristism or the endless parade of "both parties" and other language devices used to equaly condemn both parties. One party is clearly less trash than the other, and bashing both makes no sense when one party very much so needs to be called out more than the other.
For example, in Congress a bill to create public election financing (almost identical to the one the authors advocate for), has 162 Democrat co-sponsors; and one Republican. Why not give praise to the Democrats and shame the republicans for clearly opposing real campaign finance reform? I have no idea.
I can only imagine it's either ignorance of HR20, or a concentrated effort to remain centrist at all costs (the authors seem far too smart for the first option, so I currently assume the second).
I digress:
Taking all that into consideration, I can't really give them full marks. They are just too terrible on some of the issues...... But a lot of the material in this book (outside of healthcare and some segments of taxes) is top notch policy suggestions.
It's a solid 3/5. It's well worth reading if you can find it.
For one, I aggree with the authors on about 70% of the issues brought up in the book. The wonky stuff on reforming the process rules in the house and Senate is great. Advocating for public election financing is inspiring (it's my single most important issue). We agree on a lot of areas of tax policy and reform (although I thought their plan was both to harsh on the poor, and oddly enough, the rich as well).
On the other hand, we sharply disagree on the matters of healthcare. The Authors embrace the tired centrist approach of "market based healthcare reform" and "unleashing the markets" and all sorts of fantasys in that effect. There is currently no rich nation with anything close to a free market healthcare system. Only poor nations have that, and it's not exactly a success story. Nor is it compatible with a lot of the aspects of our advanced healthcare system (which has market concentration approaching levels close to monopoly in some regions).
Some of the ideas are downright hilarious. The mere mention that private Insurance companys could (or would) compete with medicare and bid to cover Seniors to lower prices was a laughable concept (Medicare was created primarily because such insurers did NOT want to insure seniors, who use a lot of healthcare services).
Really, I dare say they are utter trash on healthcare policy (sorry, but it must be said).
Their dedication to centrist politicaly philosophy is aslo fairly annoying. If your a progressive, you will roll your eyes at the reverence for centristism or the endless parade of "both parties" and other language devices used to equaly condemn both parties. One party is clearly less trash than the other, and bashing both makes no sense when one party very much so needs to be called out more than the other.
For example, in Congress a bill to create public election financing (almost identical to the one the authors advocate for), has 162 Democrat co-sponsors; and one Republican. Why not give praise to the Democrats and shame the republicans for clearly opposing real campaign finance reform? I have no idea.
I can only imagine it's either ignorance of HR20, or a concentrated effort to remain centrist at all costs (the authors seem far too smart for the first option, so I currently assume the second).
I digress:
Taking all that into consideration, I can't really give them full marks. They are just too terrible on some of the issues...... But a lot of the material in this book (outside of healthcare and some segments of taxes) is top notch policy suggestions.
It's a solid 3/5. It's well worth reading if you can find it.
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