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The land of too much : American abundance and the paradox of poverty /

Monica Prasad's powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prasad, Monica
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Explaining American state intervention
  • The farmers' tour
  • Comparing capitalisms
  • A demand-side theory of comparative political economy
  • The agrarian regulation of taxation
  • The non-history of national sales tax
  • The land of too much
  • Progressive taxation and the welfare state
  • The agrarian regulation of finance
  • American adversarial regulation
  • The democratization of credit
  • The credit/welfare state trade-off
  • American mortgage Keynesianism : summary and policy implications.