The Ends of Freedom
Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights
Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, [2023]
Format: Book
Description: 329 pages ; 24 cm
"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?"-- Provided by the publisher.
Contents:
Part I. American Freedom. 1. States of America -- 2. Capitalism and Freedom -- 3. America's Other Freedom -- Part II Economic Rights. 4. The Right to Work -- 5. The Right to Housing -- 6. The Right to an Education -- 7. The Right to Health Care -- 8. The Right to a Basic Income and Banking -- 9. The Right to a Healthy Environment -- Part III. A Budget for the People. 10. How Do We Pay for It?
Subjects:
Economic rights -- United States -- History.
Equality -- Economic aspects -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century.
Economic rights -- United States -- History.
Equality -- Economic aspects -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780226792965
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BUSINESS Economics Pau | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-304) and index.