Progressive aims are reframed through economic growth discourse

Evidence

While Obama called for protecting Medicare; progressive tax reform; increasing government investment in science and technology research, clean energy, home ownership, and education; immigration reform; fighting sex discrimination and domestic violence; and raising the minimum wage, each of these issues was framed in terms of its contribution to economic growth or American competitiveness. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 36

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even progressive political values get justified as drivers of economic growth — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 38; Neoliberalism pivoted from the economy to the framework encasing it — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 88; The US reframed colonialism as differential development opportunity, a discourse later central to neoliberalism — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 84 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism pivoted from the economy to the framework encasing it #expands (0.85) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 88
• Contemporary neoliberal subjects are subordinated to macroeconomic growth, not self-interest #expands (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 166
• The US reframed colonialism as differential development opportunity, a discourse later central to neoliberalism #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 84
• Broader neoliberal shifts enabled austerity’s return to economic common sense #expands (0.80) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 406