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Heather C. McGhee came to Buffalo this week to tell area residents that the US political economy really isn’t like the weather. The vice-president of policy and outreach at Demos, a liberal public policy and research organization in Washington, DC, had a substantial point beyond this obvious contrast: The American economy is not a system operating under invariant natural laws. Rather, it’s a system that’s been constructed by human beings, and “it’s not outside our control.” But, she said, “we talk about it as if it’s a large natural phenomenon, like the weather.”
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