Book jacket image for The Big Myth by Naomi Oreskes

Bloomsbury

9781635573572

STARRED REVIEW

The Big Myth

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway boldly challenge the American myth that unregulated markets are inseparable from democracy and freedom.

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Review of ‘The Big Myth’

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway call their deeply researched new book, The Big Myth, “the true history of a false idea.” The false idea in question is not really a single idea but rather many connected assertions, promoted throughout the 20th century, that have gelled into the “quasi-religious belief that the best way to…

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