Land of Too Much American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty

Name: Land of Too Much American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty
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ISBN: 9780674066526

ISBN-10: 0674066529

ISBN-13: 9780674066526

Edition: 2012

Authors: Monica Prasad

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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 did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years?Although the United States is often considered a liberal, laissez-faire state, Monica Prasad marshals convincing evidence to the contrary. Indeed, she argues that a strong tradition of government intervention undermined the development of a European-style welfare state. The demand-side theory of comparative political…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 12/31/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Preface



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



Conclusion



American Mortgage Keynesianism: Summary and Policy Implications


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index