TY - BOOK AU - Madrick,Jeffrey G. TI - The case for big government T2 - The public square book series SN - 0691123314 (rel) AV - JK 421 M183c 2009 U1 - 320.973 PY - 2009/// CY - Princeton (N.J.) PB - Princeton University Press KW - Organizational effectiveness KW - United states KW - Efectividad organizacional KW - Estados Unidos N1 - 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 ER -