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Plenty of Nothing

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Plenty of Nothing : The Downsizing of the American Dream and the Case for Structural Keynesianism
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    List of Figures
    List of Tables
    Preface to the First Edition
    Introduction to the Paperback Edition
    CHAPTER 1. Debunking Economic Naturalism
    CHAPTER 2. Making Sense of the Economy and Economics
    CHAPTER 3. Plenty of Nothing: An Overview
    CHAPTER 4. The State of the American Dream
    CHAPTER 5. The Logic of Economic Power, Part I: Diagnosing the Problem
    CHAPTER 6. The Logic of Economic Power, Part II: Policies for Prosperity
    CHAPTER 7. The Triumph of Wall Street: Finance and the Federal Reserve
    CHAPTER 8. From New Deal to Raw Deal: The Attack on Government
    CHAPTER 9. Free Trade and the Race to the Bottom
    CHAPTER 10. International Money: Who Governs?
    CHAPTER 11. Structural Keynesianism and Globalization
    CHAPTER 12. Recipe for a Depression
    Epilogue: Ending Economic Fatalism
    Notes
    References
    Index
  • Contributor: Palley, Thomas I. [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2021]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.); 46 line illus. 21 tables
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780691227603
  • ISBN: 9780691227603
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  • Keywords: Achievement motivation ; Keynesian economics ; Success ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General ; chief executive officer (CEO) pay ; communism ; comparative advantage ; competition: for jobs ; consumption-binge hypothesis ; demand: effect of deficient ; deregulation: effect of ; economic performance: of median family ; economic theory: antilabor ; employment cost index (ECI) ; exploitation ; investment diversion ; job loss rates ; law of one price ; lower class increase (1973-90) ; monetarists ; product market competition ; recession: 1990 ; Bush administration: fiscal policy ; Cold War ; [...]
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: Business papers today are in a triumphant mood, buoyed by a conviction that the economic stagnation of the last quarter century has vanished in favor of a new age of robust growth. But if we are doing so well, many ask, why does it feel like we are working harder for less? Why, despite economic growth, does inequality between rich and poor keep rising? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Thomas Palley pulls together many threads of "new liberal" economic thought to offer detailed answers to these pressing questions. And he proposes a new economic model--structural Keynesianism--that he argues would return America to sustainable, fairly shared prosperity. The key, he writes, is to abandon the myth of a natural competitive economy, which has justified unleashing capital and attacking unions. This has resulted in an economy dominated by business. Palley's book, which began as a cover article for The Atlantic Monthly in 1996, challenges the economic orthodoxies of the political right and center, popularized by such economists as Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman. He marshals a powerful array of economic facts and arguments to show that the interests of working families have gradually been sacrificed to those of corporations. Expanding on traditional Keynesian economics, he argues that, although capitalism is the most productive system ever devised, it also tends to generate deep economic inequalities and encourage the pursuit of profit at the expense of all else. He challenges fatalists who say we can do nothing about this--that economic insecurity and stagnant wages are the inevitable results of irresistible globalization. Palley argues that capitalism comes in a range of forms and that government can and should shape it from a "mean street" system into a "main street" system through monetary, fiscal, trade, and regulatory policies that promote widespread prosperity. Plenty of Nothing offers a compelling alternative to conventional economic wisdom. The book is clearly and powerfully written and will provoke debate among economists and the general public about the most stubborn problems in the American economy
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