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The Land of Too Much : American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (344 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674067813
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Land of Too MuchDDC classification:
  • 338.5/2120973
LOC classification:
  • HC103 .P843 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Part One: Explaining American State Intervention -- 1. The Farmers' Tour -- 2. Comparing Capitalisms -- 3. A Demand-Side Theory of Comparative Political Economy -- Part Two: The Agrarian Regulation of Taxation -- 4. The Non-History of National Sales Tax -- 5. The Land of Too Much -- 6. Progressive Taxation and the Welfare State -- Part Three: The Agrarian Regulation of Finance -- 7. American Adversarial Regulation -- 8. The Democratization of Credit -- 9. The Credit/Welfare State Trade-Off -- Part Four: Conclusion -- 10. American Mortgage Keynesianism: Summary and Policy Implications -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Monica Prasad's powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years?.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Part One: Explaining American State Intervention -- 1. The Farmers' Tour -- 2. Comparing Capitalisms -- 3. A Demand-Side Theory of Comparative Political Economy -- Part Two: The Agrarian Regulation of Taxation -- 4. The Non-History of National Sales Tax -- 5. The Land of Too Much -- 6. Progressive Taxation and the Welfare State -- Part Three: The Agrarian Regulation of Finance -- 7. American Adversarial Regulation -- 8. The Democratization of Credit -- 9. The Credit/Welfare State Trade-Off -- Part Four: Conclusion -- 10. American Mortgage Keynesianism: Summary and Policy Implications -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Monica Prasad's powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years?.

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