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Political conservatives have long believed that the best government is a small government. But if this were true, noted economist Jeff Madrick argues, the nation would not be experiencing stagnant wages, rising health care costs, increasing unemployment, and concentrations of wealth for a narrow eli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Madrick, Jeff, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Public square (Princeton, N.J.)
Temas:
2001-2009
Organizational effectiveness > United States.
Efficacité organisationnelle > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
LAW > Government > Federal.
Politics and government
Economic policy
Organizational effectiveness
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Economic policy > 2001-2009.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
États-Unis > Politique économique > 2001-2009.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. 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
  • Part II. 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
  • Part III. What to do ; Pessimism in America
  • The failure of conventional wisdom
  • America has the money
  • An agenda.

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