
Moral clarity is not enough
Gustavo Petro’s “economy for life” speaks to real crises. But without a rigorous political economy behind it, progressive movements risk mistaking the symptoms for the disease.
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Matías Vernengo is professor of economics at Bucknell University and former senior research manager at the Central Bank of Argentina. He is coeditor of the Review of Keynesian Economics and coeditor in chief of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.

Gustavo Petro’s “economy for life” speaks to real crises. But without a rigorous political economy behind it, progressive movements risk mistaking the symptoms for the disease.