Madrick The Case for Big Government

With a New preface by the author and a new foreword by Ruth O'Brien
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3480-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 224 Seiten

Reihe: The Public Square

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Madrick, Jeff

Weitere Mitwirkende

O'Brien, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword xi
Preface to the Paperback Edition xiii

PART I: Government and Change in America 1
The Danger of an Ideology
The Evidence
Looking-Back Narratives from the Right and Left
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
The Many Uses of Government in the 1800s
Government as an Agent of Change in the 1900s
The Economic Benefits of Government
Resisting a Pragmatic Government

PART II: How Much We Have Changed 65
The History of Change
The New Challenge to the Standard of Living
The Broad Threat to the American Promise
It’s Not Just Inequality
When Knowledge Also Changes
The Purpose of Government
Forsaking Pragmatism for Ideology

PART III: What to Do 125
Pessimism in America
The Failure of ConventionalWisdom
America Has the Money
An Agenda

Notes 177
Index 195

Über Autor(innen)

Jeff Madrick is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former economics columnist for the New York Times. He is editor of Challenge magazine and senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.