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The Obamanauts are decidedly non-ideological. They occasionally reach out to progressive think tanks like the Economic Policy Institute, but they also come from a world— academic economics—whose inhabitants generally lean right…. As a result, they tend to be just as comfortable with ideological diversity as the candidate they advise.
And yet, just because the Obamanauts are intellectually modest and relatively free of ideology, that doesn’t mean their policy goals lack ambition. In many cases, the opposite is true.
— Noam Scheiber, The Audacity of Data -
essential reading on the pragmatic philosophy undergirding Obama’s pool of policy advisors.
essential reading on the pragmatic philosophy undergirding Obama’s pool of policy advisors.
