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The big myth how American business taught us to loathe government and love the free market

In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, c...

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Main Authors: Oreskes, Naomi (Author), Conway, Erik M., 1965- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
Subjects:
Big business > United States > History.
Corporate power > United States.
Business and politics > United States.
Capitalism > United States.
Free enterprise > United States.
United States > Economic policy > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The social costs of capitalism
  • Power plays and propaganda
  • Fighting the New Deal
  • The tripod of freedom
  • "A stringent, crystalline vision of the free market"
  • The big myth goes West
  • A questionable gospel
  • No more Grapes of Wrath
  • Steering the Chicago School
  • The American road to serfdom
  • A love story about capitalism
  • The dawn of deregulation
  • Magical thinking
  • Apotheosis
  • The high cost of the "free" market
  • Conclusion.

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