Thinking like an Economist : : How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy /

Thinking like an Economist : : How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy / / Elizabeth Popp Berman.

The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s—and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions todayFor decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Berman, Elizabeth Popp,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Thinking like an Economist
  • 2. The Economic Style and Its Antecedents
  • 3. How to Make Government Decisions
  • 4. How to Govern Markets
  • 5. The Economic Style and Social Policy
  • 6. The Economic Style and Market Governance
  • 7. The Economic Style and Social Regulation
  • 8. How the Economic Style Replaced the Democratic Left
  • 9. The Economic Style in the Age of Reagan
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Sources
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A Note on the Type

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