News Summary

• By combining fiscal responsibility, growth, and social development, progressive governments in Brazil and Spain have improved millions of people’s lives.
• Such a successful alternative model could not have come at a better time.
• The belief that right-wing governments are good for the economy, whereas progressive administrations mismanage it, reflects a conception of economics that ignores the sustainability of growth and conservatives’ actual record.
• It is time to reject the hoary belief that conservatives are better stewards of the economy.