Capitalism Contested : : The New Deal and Its Legacies / / ed. by Romain Huret, Nelson Lichtenstein, Jean-Christian Vinel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Andrias, Kate,; Huret, Romain,; Jones, William P.,; Lichtenstein, Nelson,; MacLean, Nancy,; Martin, Isaac William,; O’Mara, Margaret,; Rahman, K. Sabeel,; Shenk, Timothy,; Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy,; Smith, Jason Scott,; Sonti, Samir,; Tani, Karen M.,; Vinel, Jean-Christian,
• HerausgeberIn: Huret, Romain,; Lichtenstein, Nelson,; Vinel, Jean-Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 3 charts, 1 table

In the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages—the first in the late nineteenth century and the second characterized by the world of Walmart, globalization, and right-wing populism in which we currently live. What defines these two ages is an increasing level of inequality legitimized by powerful ideologies, namely, Social Darwinism at the end of the nineteenth century and neoliberalism today. In stark contrast, the era of the New Deal was first and foremost an attempt to put an end to inequality in American society. In the historical longue durée, it appears today as a kind of golden age when policymakers and citizens sought to devise solutions to the two major "questions"—labor on one side, social on the other—that were at the heart of the American political economy during the twentieth century.Capitalism Contested argues that the New Deal order remains an effective framework to make sense of the transformation of American political economy over the last hundred years. Contributors offer an historicized analysis of the degree to which that political, economic, and ideological order persists and the ways in which it has been transcended or even overthrown. The essays pay attention not only to those ideas and social forces hostile to the New Deal, but to the contradictions and debilities that were present at the inauguration or became inherent within this liberal impulse during the last half of the twentieth century. The unifying thematic among the essays consists not in their subject matter—politics, political economy, social thought, and legal scholarship are represented—but in a historical quest to assess the transformation and fate of an economic and policy order nearly a century after its creation.Contributors: Kate Andrias, Romain Huret, William P. Jones, Nelson Lichtenstein, Nancy MacLean, Isaac William Martin, Margaret O'Mara, K. Sabeel Rahman, Timothy Shenk, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Jason Scott Smith, Samir Sonti, Karen M. Tani, Jean-Christian Vinel.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. The New Deal: A Lost Golden Age? -- Part I. The Political Economy of New Deal Reformism -- Chapter 1. Transcending the New Deal Idea of the State: Managerialism, Neoliberalism, and Democracy -- Chapter 2. Inventing the American Economy -- Chapter 3. The Triumph of the Mixed Economy: The New Deal Order, Keynes, and the Genius of American Liberalism -- Chapter 4. The Strange Career of Institutional Keynesianism -- Part II. New Deal Headwinds: Contestation and Resistance -- Chapter 5. The Unanticipated Consequences of New Deal Poor Relief: Welfare Rights, Empowered States, and the Revival of Localism -- Chapter 6. Financing Security and Opportunity: The New Deal and the Origins of the Millennial Student Debt Crisis -- Chapter 7. The Shackles of the Past: Constitutional Property Tax Limitations and the Fall of the New Deal Order -- Chapter 8. The Koch Network: Property Supremacist Ideology and Politics in the Twenty- First Century -- Part III. Capital and Labor in the Twilight of the New Deal -- Chapter 9. Economic Royalists and Their Kingdom in the New Deal Era and Beyond -- Chapter 10. The High- Tech Revolution and the Disruption of American Capitalism -- Chapter 11. The Other Operation Dixie: Public Employees and the Resilience of Urban Liberalism -- Chapter 12. Constructing a New Labor Law for the Post– New Deal Era -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments