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The case for big government
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Title
The case for big government [electronic resource] / Jeff Madrick.
ISBN
1400834805
9781400834808
0691146209
9780691123318 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691146201
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (205 p. )
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement III.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement III.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 13, 2015
Series
The public square book series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-194) and index.
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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