The Case for Big Government (eBook)

Jeff Madrick (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3480-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Political conservatives have long believed that the best government is a small government. But if this were true, noted economist Jeff Madrick argues, the nation would not be experiencing stagnant wages, rising health care costs, increasing unemployment, and concentrations of wealth for a narrow elite. In this perceptive and eye-opening book, Madrick proves that an engaged government--a big government of high taxes and wise regulations--is necessary for the social and economic answers that Americans desperately need in changing times. He shows that the big governments of past eras fostered greatness and prosperity, while weak, laissez-faire governments marked periods of corruption and exploitation. The Case for Big Government considers whether the government can adjust its current policies and set the country right. Madrick explains why politics and economics should go hand in hand; why America benefits when the government actively nourishes economic growth; and why America must reject free market orthodoxy and adopt ambitious government-centered programs. He looks critically at today's politicians--at Republicans seeking to revive nineteenth-century principles, and at Democrats who are abandoning the pioneering efforts of the Great Society. Madrick paints a devastating portrait of the nation's declining social opportunities and how the economy has failed its workers. He looks critically at today's politicians and demonstrates that the government must correct itself to address these serious issues. A practical call to arms, The Case for Big Government asks for innovation, experimentation, and a willingness to fail. The book sets aside ideology and proposes bold steps to ensure the nation's vitality.

Autor

Jeff Madrick is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former economics columnist for the New York Times. He is editor of Challenge magazine and senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2010
• Reihe/Serie: The Public Square
• Reihe/Serie: The Public Square
• Vorwort: Ruth O'Brien
• Zusatzinfo: 5 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: African Americans • Agriculture • americans • At Best • Bankruptcy • Big Business • Big Government • Bureau of Labor Statistics • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • Capitalism and Freedom • Central Bank • central government • Competition • consumer • Consumption (Economics) • Currency • Customer • debt • Disability • disadvantage • Disease • distrust • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • Economic Policy • Economic Power • Economics • economist • economy • editorial • Emerging Technologies • Employment • enthusiasm • Equal Opportunity • Expense • family income • Finance • Globalization • global warming • government spending • health insurance • Ideology • Incentive • income • income distribution • Income Tax • industrialisation • Inflation • Infrastructure • Institution • Interest Rate • International Trade • Investment • Keynesian Economics • Laissez-faire • Legislation • Longevity • Manufacturing • Mass production • Milton Friedman • minimum wage • monetary policy • of education • Offshoring • Payroll tax • Pension • Percentage point • Policy • Politician • Poverty • Princeton University Press • Productivity • Professionalism • progressive tax • Publicity • Recession • Requirement • Retirement • salary • saving • self-esteem • Service economy • Social Darwinism • Speculation • standard of living • State Government • Subsidy • tariff • Tax • Tax Cut • tax revenue • Technology • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • wage • Wealth • welfare • World War II • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3480-5 / 1400834805
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3480-8 / 9781400834808