Against The Conventional Wisdom: A Primer For Current Economic Controversies And Proposals

by Douglas Dowd

Overview

For the past twenty-five years, the United States has undergone a retrogression in its socioeconomic policies–facilitated and supported by most economists–thanks to the steady drumbeat of arguments by entrepreneurs and politicians who celebrate the free market for anything and everything and who advocate, among other follies, balanced budgets and r

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429720963
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/10/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dowd, Douglas

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Myths and Realities of the Free Market -- Fiscal Policy -- International Production, Trade and Finance -- Jobs and Joblessness -- Income and Wealth and Power and Poverty -- Welfare and Social Security -- Health, Education, and Housing -- Environmental Deterioration -- Expenditures on the Military and Crime -- Needs and Possibilities