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The economists' hour, false prophets, free markets, and the fracture of society, Binyamin Appelbaum

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The economists' hour, false prophets, free markets, and the fracture of society, Binyamin Appelbaum

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The economists' hour

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

1117277015

Responsibility statement

Binyamin Appelbaum

Sub title

false prophets, free markets, and the fracture of society

Summary

Tells the story of the conservative economists espousing free market and deregulatory policies during the four decades betweeen 1969 and 2008. Leading figures such as Milton Friedman, Arthur Laffer, Walter Oi, Alfred Kahn, and Thomas Schelling believed that government should stop trying to manage the economy, and that markets would deliver steady growth and ensure that all Americans shared in the benefits. But, Applelbaum argues, these policies failed to deliever on their promise of broad prosperity, and the singleminded embrace of markets has come at the expense of economic equality, the health of liberal democracy, and future generations

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