# Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy
**Date de l'événement :** 19/04/2022
* Publié le 19/04/2022

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## Description
Between the 1960s and the 1980s, an economic style of reasoning—one focused on efficiency, incentives, choice, and competition—became prominent within U.S. public policy, including in domains that were once not seen as particularly “economic”. Drawing on historical research on policy domains ranging from environmental to welfare to antitrust policy, I show how particular intellectual communities introduced and disseminated this style of reasoning, and examine its lasting political effects. As the values of economics—especially various forms of efficiency—became institutionalized through law, regulation and organizational change, it became harder for competing claims about rights, universalism, equity, and power to gain purchase. While economic reasoning had the potential to conflict with conservative as well as liberal values, in practice it was particularly constraining for the Democratic left—the implications of which continue to be felt.  
  
The talk illustrates this larger argument by looking at the case of antitrust, or competition policy, in which the economic style of reasoning was institutionalized through law schools, federal agencies, and the courts. This change substantially narrowed the range of policy options that appeared legitimate, and the grounds on which corporate power could be contested.  
  
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## Intervenant(s)
Elizabeth Popp Berman

## Intervenant(s) secondaires
Zoé Evrard, Charlotte Halpern, Florence Haegel

### Date de publication de l'épisode
19/04/2022

### Type(s) de ressource
`#Audio` 

### Discipline(s)
`#Économie` 

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`#Amérique du Nord` 

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`#Anglais` 

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`#SoundCloud` 

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