The Land of Too Much : : American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty / / Monica Prasad.
The Land of Too Much presents a simple but powerful hypothesis that 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 starting in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Ano de Publicação: | 2012 |
Idioma: | English |
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Descrição Física: | 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 2 line illustrations, 11 graphs, 7 tables |
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Sumário:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 The Farmers' Tour
- 2 Comparing Capitalisms
- 3 A Demand- Side Theory of Comparative Political Economy
- 4 The Non- History of National Sales Tax
- 5 The Land of Too Much
- 6 Progressive Taxation and the Welfare State
- 7 American Adversarial Regulation
- 8 The Democratization of Credit
- 9 The Credit/Welfare State Trade- Off
- 10 American Mortgage Keynesianism: Summary and Policy Implications
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index