The ends of freedom : reclaiming America's lost promise of economic rights / Mark Paul
- Author
- Paul, Mark (Political economist)
- Published
- Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Physical Description
- 329 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. American freedom -- States of America -- Capitalism and freedom -- America's other freedom -- Part II. Economic rights -- The right to work -- The right to housing -- The right to an education -- The right to health care -- The right to a basic income and banking -- The right to a healthy environment -- Part III. A budget for the people -- How do we pay for it? -- Conclusion.
- Summary
- "Economist Mark Paul considers the history of American rights and freedoms as determinants of American economic well-being. The failed promise of FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society programs to secure positive rights for all Americans (the right to a decent education, a good job, adequate health care, and a greater capacity for economic flourishing) have left the country fractured by inequality and stifled in social mobility. Paul traces this shift not only to the unrealized promise of the twentieth-century reforms, but to the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism (the conflation of freedom and markets, the vilification of government intervention in public life) as a persisting source of American injustice. Building on the history of this trend, he offers policy prescriptions to reinvigorate American equality and mobility, including economic ones for the question: how do you pay for it?"--
- Subject(s)
- 1900-1999
- Equality—Economic aspects—United States
- Droits économiques et sociaux—États-Unis—Histoire
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
- Economic history
- Economic policy
- Economic rights
- Equality—Economic aspects
- Economic rights—United States—History
- États-Unis—Conditions économiques—20e siècle
- États-Unis—Politique économique—20e siècle
- United States—Economic policy—20th century
- United States
- United States—Economic conditions—20th century
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780226792965 (hardcover)
022679296X (hardcover)
9780226826295 (electronic book) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-304) and index.
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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