Accomplishment is better than endless dithering—who knew?
Zachary D. Carter
Zachary D. Carter is a writer-in-residence with the Omidyar Network and the Hewlett Foundation. He is the author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.
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Wrestling With the New Deal
The programs Roosevelt put together may not have met a Platonic ideal of modern progress, but they saved American democracy itself.
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Debating Antitrust Policy and Efficient Markets
An exchange stimulated by Zach Carter’s review of Barry Lynn’s ‘Liberty From All Masters’
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The Power of Ideas and the Idea of Power
The progressives won the debate about whether there is a power elite. Now they need to keep the corporate elite from destroying what’s left of our democracy.
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Rating Agencies, Discredited
The major credit raters helped fuel the sub-prime mortgage crisis by saying risky assets were safe bets. So why is the government now relying on their help to rescue the economy?