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brooklynite

(93,851 posts)
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 11:39 AM Jun 2019

The Ivory Tower team of wonks behind Warren's policy agenda

Politico

Behind Elizabeth Warren’s trust-busting, Wall Street-bashing, tax-the-wealthy platform is a brain trust that extends well beyond the Beltway thinkers who often rubber stamp campaign proposals.

Instead, the former Harvard professor and her tight team of policy advisers have waded deeper into the world of academia than is usual in presidential campaigns, according to interviews with more than a dozen people her campaign has consulted and a review of the scholarship underlying her plans.

Leafing through Warren's plans posted on Medium, voters will find links to obscure academic literature from places like the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, the Upjohn Institute, the Journal of Applied Business and Economics, and the American Journal of Sociology.

The unveiling of her agriculture policy, for example, came with bold promises to take on "Big Ag." But her policy team went into the weeds with experts beforehand, consulting texts like a recent book published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis titled, “Harvesting Opportunity: The Power of Regional Food System Investments to Transform Communities.”

Warren is also frequently in touch with an array of academics, including several of her former students — slipping naturally from easily digestible campaign trail rhetoric to her native ivory tower vernacular.
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The Ivory Tower team of wonks behind Warren's policy agenda (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2019 OP
She is doing what a good President does: Perform extensive research and deliver good policies. LonePirate Jun 2019 #1
It's just terrible! She has experts who use heir expertise tishaLA Jun 2019 #2
the term "ivory tower" is an insult. wyldwolf Jun 2019 #3
How refreshing: policy actually based on research, data, intellectual appraisal hlthe2b Jun 2019 #4
Looks like a snowybirdie Jun 2019 #5
 

LonePirate

(13,386 posts)
1. She is doing what a good President does: Perform extensive research and deliver good policies.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 11:44 AM
Jun 2019
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tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
2. It's just terrible! She has experts who use heir expertise
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 11:53 AM
Jun 2019

to formulate policy solutions based on data!

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wyldwolf

(43,865 posts)
3. the term "ivory tower" is an insult.
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 12:37 PM
Jun 2019

I've always had more respect for pols who have detailed policy plans. Substance over style. It's what makes Warren, and damn near everyone else in the race, such better candidates than Sanders.

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hlthe2b

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4. How refreshing: policy actually based on research, data, intellectual appraisal
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 12:49 PM
Jun 2019

It would surely be nice if whoever wins the Dem nom and ultimately the WH brought a renaissance to the value of education, intellect, science, and reasoning. I have had it with appeasing the RW on this.

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snowybirdie

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5. Looks like a
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 12:56 PM
Jun 2019

real plus for Sen. Warren! Actually using educated people to determine public policy! What a concept 💡

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