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Sorting out the mixed economy : the rise and fall of welfare and developmental states in the Americas
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Sorting out the mixed economy : the rise and fall of welfare and developmental states in the Americas / Amy C. Offner.
ISBN
9780691190938
0691190933
Publication
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xv, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Summary
"The untold story of how U.S. development efforts in postwar Latin America helped lead to the dismantling of the U.S. welfare state. ... In this groundbreaking book, Amy Offner brings readers to Colombia and back, showing the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury statebuilding. The untold story of how the road from the New Deal to the Great Society ran through Latin America, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy also offers a surprising new account of the origins of neoliberalism." --Dust jacket.
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Online version: Offner, Amy C. Sorting Out the Mixed Economy. [Place of publication not identified] : Princeton University Press : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 15, 2019
Series
Histories of economic life
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I. Building the decentralized state
Decentralization in one valley
Land reform in local hands and local minds
Private homes and economic orders
Part II. Stewards of the state
Economics as a public mission
Management as a universal technique
Part III. Looking outward
The Great Society as good business
The American Dream comes home
Decentralization reborn
Epilogue: Sorting out the mixed economy.
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