Lippmann’s slope-to-dictatorship framing troubled even sympathetic contemporaries by its absolutism

Evidence

This polar understanding of economic policy, and its corresponding insinuation that gradual changes in the economy led inevitably toward a dictatorial state, became the defi ning trope of freemarket polemics in the de cade that followed. It was the absolutism with which Lippmann expressed this binary that most troubled his colleagues and peers. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 156

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contemporary critics saw Lippmann’s stark binary as reactionary heresy-hunting — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 157

Broader Connections

• Contemporary critics saw Lippmann’s stark binary as reactionary heresy-hunting #expands (0.85) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 157