Betsey Stevenson, Ford School professor and economist, talked with Tom Keene on Single Best Idea about the policy proposals that seek to bring back a 1950s lifestyle. She said "the argue that they want that but they don't actually want the living standards of the 1950s" instead she says that people "want a 2024 lifestyle at the same time they want to feel the security" of what they imagine existed back in the 1950s.
