The ends of freedom : reclaiming America's lost promise of economic rights

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Paul, Mark (Political economist), author

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"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 ...

"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?"--

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