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

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 t...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 3 charts, 1 table
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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