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Aug 23, 2024 | 
fingers.email | Walt Bogdanich |Mike Forsythe |Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway
Books? Pretty great, I think. Reading them, referencing them, arranging them by color on a shelf behind you so when you get on a Zoom call you seem chic and put-together? Good shit all around. As longtime readers may recall, my reading list doubles as a shoppable page on Bookshop.org, The Fingers Reading Room.
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May 14, 2024 | 
capitanswing.com | Capitán Swing |Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway
El gran mito Cómo las empresas nos enseñaron a aborrecer el Gobierno y amar el libre mercado Sinopsis Los autores de Mercaderes de la duda nos desvelan en esta ocasión la verdad sobre otra de las ideas falsas más tenaces —y destructivas— de Estados Unidos, un dogma desastroso: la «magia del mercado». A principios del siglo xx, varias élites empresariales, asociaciones comerciales, ricos y medios de comunicación se propusieron construir una nueva ortodoxia estadounidense: abajo el «gran...
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway |Ron Cole-Turner |William Schultz
The story of the long-standing fight between our nation’s economic conservatives and progressives can be told at varying levels of outrage. Here’s a low-level version: in the 1800s, the federal government neglected Americans facing poverty and harsh working conditions, but the next century brought an explosion in federal interventions.
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May 31, 2023 | 
bostonglobe.com | Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway
The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and rescue of Credit Suisse Bank, which together held hundreds of billions of dollars, has many people worrying about an otherwise wonky topic: bank regulation. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, along with others, have suggested that the SVB collapse could have been prevented had key regulations not been weakened during the Trump years.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway |Mark Pulliam |Brenda Hafera
The fever swamps of overheated ideology often produce—in addition to extremist rhetoric—preposterous conspiracy theories. This longstanding phenomenon exists across the political spectrum: Alleged plots featuring QAnon, the Illuminati, Freemasons, Dominion voting machines, fluoridation, Area 51, and Trump-Russia collusion; alleged hoaxes involving the moon landing, 9/11, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; and claims that President Dwight D.
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Mar 10, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway
In their new book, " The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market," Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, professors at Harvard and the California Institute of Technology, respectively, tell the important and frequently infuriating history of how it is that Americans came to equate the broad concept of freedom with an almost religious belief in the free market.
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Mar 8, 2023 | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway
Naomi Oreskes is a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. Erik Conway is a historian of technology at Caltech. They co-wrote the bestselling book, Merchants of Doubt, which told the story of climate change denial. Below, Naomi and Erik share 5 key insights from their new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. Listen to the audio version—read by Naomi—in the Next Big Idea App.
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Feb 28, 2023 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway
Harvard professor and author Naomi Oreskes joins Here & Now‘s Scott Tong to talk about her book “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market” which she co-authored with Erik M. Conway.
Naomi Oreskes co-authored “The Big Myth” with Erik M. Conway. (Kayana Szymczak)
Book excerpt: ‘The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market’
By Naomi Oreskes and Erik M.
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Feb 28, 2023 | 
time.com | Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway
As a novel virus crisscrossed the globe in 2020, The Economist ran an editorial acknowledging the urgent need for a “Big Government” response but demanding that government shrink back as soon as the crisis had passed and return economic matters to the wisdom of the marketplace. Even in an hour of darkest need, a century-long campaign to implant the myth of the magic of the marketplace had succeeded in making government “encroachment” seem as scary as a deadly pathogen.
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Feb 28, 2023 | 
wyomingpublicmedia.org | Naomi Oreskes |Erik Conway
Harvard professor and author Naomi Oreskes joins Here & Now‘s Scott Tong to talk about her book “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market” which she co-authored with Erik M. Conway.
Naomi Oreskes co-authored “The Big Myth” with Erik M. Conway. (Kayana Szymczak)
Book excerpt: ‘The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market’
By Naomi Oreskes and Erik M.
