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

Name: Thinking like an Economist
Author: Elizabeth Popp Berman

Auteur: Elizabeth Popp Berman

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Elizabeth Popp Berman

Engels
Hardcover
9780691167381
05 april 2022
344 pagina's

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The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s-and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking-an economic style of reasoning -became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today. Introduced by liberal technocrats who hoped to improve government, this way of thinking was grounded in economics but also transformed law and policy. At its core was an economic understanding of efficiency, and its advocates often found themselves allied with Republicans and in conflict with liberal Democrats who argued for rights, equality, and limits on corporate power. By the Carter administration, economic reasoning had spread throughout government policy and laws affecting poverty, healthcare, antitrust, transportation, and the environment. Fearing waste and overspending, liberals reined in their ambitions for decades to come, even as Reagan and his Republican successors argued for economic efficiency only when it helped their own goals. A compelling account that illuminates what brought American politics to its current state, Thinking like an Economist also offers critical lessons for the future. With the political left resurgent today, Democrats seem poised to break with the past-but doing so will require abandoning the shibboleth of economic efficiency and successfully advocating new ways of thinking about policy.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 april 2022
Aantal pagina's: 344

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Hoofdauteur: Elizabeth Popp Berman
Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

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Product lengte: 235 mm
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