The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

The cult of the free market-with its dogma of tax cuts, small government, and deregulation-has dominated economic policy talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago, seducing even liberals along the way. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century: the conservatives themselves have abandoned these principles. In this riveting book, Galbraith first dissects the stale remains of Reaganism and shows why George W. Bush had no choice but to dump them. He ...