Ending the Myth of 'Market Fundamentalism'

Progressives have wailed against "market fundamentalism for the last quarter-century. They complain that conservatives want to eliminate the government and leave everything to the market. This is nonsense. The Right has every bit as much interest in government involvement in the economy as progressives. The difference is that conservatives want the government to intervene in ways that redistribute income upward. The other difference is that the Right is smart enough to hide its interventions, implying that the structures that redistribute income upward are just the natural working of the market. Progressives help the Right's cause when we accuse them of being "market fundamentalists," effectively implying that the conservatives' structuring of the economy is its natural state.