New York Times Explores an End to Capitalism: ‘What Can Replace Free Markets?’
21st February 2022
Two anti-capitalist diatribes in the guise of news articles made the same edition of the New York Times.
Steve Lohr, who covers business and economics, praised a new left-wing consortium of foundations and academics out to replace the free-market system that has brought so much prosperity to so many in America: “Wary of Economic Neoliberalism, Groups Fund Research on Alternatives.” The online headline of Thursday’s story was spicier: “What Can Replace Free Markets? Groups Pledge $41 Million to Find Out.”