Thinking like an economist how efficiency replaced equality in U.S. public policy

"The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s-and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions todayFor decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambit...

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Main Author: Berman, Elizabeth Popp, 1975- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
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Table of Contents:
  • Thinking like an Economist
  • The Economic Style and Its Antecedents
  • How to Make Government Decisions
  • How to Govern Markets
  • The Economic Style and Social Policy
  • The Economic Style and Market Governance
  • The Economic Style and Social Regulation
  • How the Economic Style Replaced the Democratic Left
  • The Economic Style in the Age of Reagan
  • Conclusion.