The bestselling authors of "Merchants of Doubt" have written a new book about "one of America's most tenacious and destructive false ideas: the myth of the free market."
On this edition of Your Call, historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway discuss their new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.
They detail how politicians, the corporate class, and major media outlets have promoted free market ideology in all aspects of life. They say this propaganda campaign has given us the housing crisis, the opioid scourge, climate destruction, and the election of Donald Trump.
They write, “Only by understanding this history can we imagine a future where markets will serve, not stifle, democracy.