A Perilous Progress : : Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America / / Michael A. Bernstein.
The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiat...
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Bernstein, Michael A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Perilous Progress : Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America / Michael A. Bernstein. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©2001 1 online resource (376 p.) : 15 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- A Note on the Notes -- Prologue. Being Ignored -- Introduction. Professional Expertise as a Historical Problem -- 1. Shaping an Authoritative Community -- 2. Prospects, Puzzles, and Predicaments -- 3. The Mobilization of Resources and Vice Versa -- 4. On Behalf of the National Security State -- 5. Statecraft and Its Retainers -- 6. Statecraft and Its Discontents -- Epilogue. Being Ignored (Reprise) -- Notes -- Bibliography and Reference Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating the state that nurtured it, ignoring distributive justice, and disproportionately privileging private desires in the study of economic life. Intellectual introversion has robbed it, he contends, of the very public influence it coveted and cultivated for so long. With wit and irony he examines how a community of experts now identified with uncritical celebration of ''free market'' virtues was itself shaped, dramatically so, by government and collective action. In arresting and provocative detail Bernstein describes economists' fitful efforts to sway a state apparatus where values and goals could seldom remain separate from means and technique, and how their vocation was ultimately humbled by government itself. Replete with novel research findings, his work also analyzes the historical peculiarities that led the profession to a key role in the contemporary backlash against federal initiatives dating from the 1930s to reform the nation's economic and social life. Interestingly enough, scholars have largely overlooked the history that has shaped this profession. An economist by training, Bernstein brings a historian's sensibilities to his narrative, utilizing extensive archival research to reveal unspoken presumptions that, through the agency of economists themselves, have come to mold and define, and sometimes actually deform, public discourse. This book offers important, even troubling insights to readers interested in the modern economic and political history of the United States and perplexed by recent trends in public policy debate. It also complements a growing literature on the history of the social sciences. Sure to have a lasting impact on its field, A Perilous Progress represents an extraordinary contribution of gritty empirical research and conceptual boldness, of grand narrative breadth and profound analytical depth. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Economics History 20th century United States. Economics United States History 20th century. Economists History 20th century United States. Economists United States History 20th century. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691119670 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400865086 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400865086 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400865086.jpg |
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