The economists' hour: false prophets, free markets, and the fracture of society

Tells the story of the conservative economists espousing free market and deregulatory policies during the four decades between 1969 and 2008. Leading figures such as Milton Friedman, Arthur Laffer, Walter Oi, Alfred Kahn, and Thomas Schelling believed that government should stop trying to manage the...

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1. Verfasser: Appelbaum, Binyamin 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Boston ; London Little, Brown and Company September 2019
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:Tells the story of the conservative economists espousing free market and deregulatory policies during the four decades between 1969 and 2008. Leading figures such as Milton Friedman, Arthur Laffer, Walter Oi, Alfred Kahn, and Thomas Schelling believed that government should stop trying to manage the economy, and that markets would deliver steady growth and ensure that all Americans shared in the benefits. But, Applelbaum argues, these policies failed to deliver on their promise of broad prosperity, and the singleminded embrace of markets has come at the expense of economic equality, the health of liberal democracy, and future generations
Beschreibung:439 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen 25 cm
ISBN:9780316512329

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