"Perhaps if the political left is willing to return to class politics (something the right-wing advocates of trickle-down have never abandoned) it might at least find a way to drive this zombie idea out of the assumed background of political debate."
— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Author
Place of Publication
Princeton, NJ
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date
2010
Metaphor
"Perhaps if the political left is willing to return to class politics (something the right-wing advocates of trickle-down have never abandoned) it might at least find a way to drive this zombie idea out of the assumed background of political debate."
Metaphor in Context
Clearly, an idea so appealing to people who can afford to reward its promulgators is unlikely to be killed by mere evidence of its falsehood. Perhaps if the political left is willing to return to class politics (something the right-wing advocates of trickle-down have never abandoned) it might at least find a way to drive this zombie idea out of the assumed background of political debate.
(p. 168)
(p. 168)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Quiggin, John. Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010.
Date of Entry
12/21/2010
Date of Review
09/02/2011
