Case for Big Government

Name: Case for Big Government
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ISBN: 9780691146201

ISBN-10: 0691146209

ISBN-13: 9780691146201

Edition: 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Jeff Madrick, Ruth O'Brien

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Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/19/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.39" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Ruth O'Brien is professor of political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of several books, including Bodies in Revolt, and Crippled Justice.



Foreword


Preface to the Paperback Edition



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


Notes


Index