@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years agoIt's true.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up11.29K
arrow-up11.29KimageIt's true.lemmy.world@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years agomessage-square74fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 years agoDoes anyone have any book/article recommendations if I’m unfamiliar with this topic, but may want to start down this rabbit hole?
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink3•2 years agoI’m not familiar with books on Reagan but if you want a great book on how the right wing billionaires manipulate things with money I suggest Dark Money by Jane Meyer. It’s in the same vein and dark money is a highly interesting topic.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoAnd left wing billionaries don’t manipulate, they are good guys?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•edit-22 years agoMore than emphasizing the figure of Reagan, I suggest learning about neoliberalism overall, and its emergence as the global order. Frankly, Reagan was just a simpleton in a suit, by my estimation. Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman are the more relevant figures historically.
Does anyone have any book/article recommendations if I’m unfamiliar with this topic, but may want to start down this rabbit hole?
I’m not familiar with books on Reagan but if you want a great book on how the right wing billionaires manipulate things with money I suggest Dark Money by Jane Meyer. It’s in the same vein and dark money is a highly interesting topic.
And left wing billionaries don’t manipulate, they are good guys?
More than emphasizing the figure of Reagan, I suggest learning about neoliberalism overall, and its emergence as the global order.
Frankly, Reagan was just a simpleton in a suit, by my estimation.
Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman are the more relevant figures historically.
Start with The Shock Doctrine from Naomi Klein