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The case for big government / Jeff Madrick.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The public squarePublication details: Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton University Press, cop. 2009.Description: 205 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0691123314 (rel)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.973
LOC classification:
  • JK 421 M183c 2009
Contents:
Government and change in America. 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 -- How much we have changed. 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 -- What to do. Pessimism in America ; The failure of conventional wisdom ; America has the money ; An agenda
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JK 421 M183c 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000076707

Bibliogr. p. [177]-194. Index.

Government and change in America. 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 -- How much we have changed. 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 -- What to do. Pessimism in America ; The failure of conventional wisdom ; America has the money ; An agenda

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