The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1416576215 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Mary Whaley . does not plan); standards for wages, product and occupational safety, and the environment; and stabilizing financial and security policy. From Booklist Galbraith, noted economist and son of the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith, offers his views on the gap between conservative ideology and its use and abuse to cover up the George W. Excellent resource for library patrons. Galbraith reports that although most academics have abandoned conservative principles such as free trade, deregulation, and tax cuts for the wealthy, politicians from both parties continue to advance policies that, in reality, have turned regulatory agencies over to business lobbies, allowed the subprime mortgage foreclosures and banking crisis, and created Medicare’s drug plan, which legislates monopoly pricing for drug companies. Bush administration’s Predator State, which takes advantage of the public sector and under
Freedom to Shop Recently Bill Maher said: "He could understand why 1% of the voters would vote Rebublican. But he could not understand why the other Freedom to Shop J. Alan Bock Recently Bill Maher said: "He could understand why 1% of the voters would vote Rebublican. But he could not understand why the other 49% would vote with that 1%? He said it was like someone came into your house and took everything you had out in a suitcase and you say "May I help you put that in the trunk of your car?"In "The Predator State" James K. Galbraith has attempted an explanation of this phenomenon. It is, he said, due to the concept of "economic freedom." This may be an older concept than one realizes. I remember it being the motivation claimed for a young woman who had emigrated to the United State. 9% would vote with that 1%? He said it was like someone came into your house and took everything you had out in a suitcase and you say "May I help you put that in the trunk of your car?"In "The Predator State" James K. Galbraith has attempted an explanation of this phenomenon. It is, he said, due to the concept of "economic freedom." This may be an older concept than one realizes. I remember it being the motivation claimed for a young woman who had emigrated to the United State. "All men are created equal" according to Bethyself. I must say that this book turned what I believe about the economy on its head, but it also enlightened me about how the economy is connected to fairness and equality. I used to think that our biggest problem was deficit spending, but now I see the biggest problem is fairness. Galbraith, who is the son of the famous John K. Galbraith who wrote The Modern Industrial State, which I read All men are created equal Bethyself I must say that this book turned what I believe about the economy on its head, but it also enlightened me about how the economy is connected to fairness and equality. I used to think that our biggest problem was deficit spending, but now I see the biggest problem is fairness. Galbraith, who is the son of the famous John K. Galbraith who wrote The Modern Industrial State, which I read 40 years ago and gave me my first insights into how the economy works, describes how inequity in wages has distorted the market and created an environment not unlike Alice in Wonderland where people disenfranchise themselves by b. 0 years ago and gave me my first insights into how the economy works, describes how inequity in wages has distorted the market and created an environment not unlike Alice in Wonderland where people disenfranchise themselves by b. "Economic Reality" according to R. Bono. I was impressed by Galbraith's understanding of the structure of the American economy. Over the post WW II years, he proposes, the US economy, in each sector, has been dominated by fewer and fewer corporations. Is it accurate to characterize it is a corporate republic?a corporate state?or, when behaving badlyas Predator State, as Galbraith does? Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex. Has this pattern become the default setting for the US economyand, has K Street insured its perpetuation? Has this spelled the death knell of classical market economics?Galbraith's answer is affirmative to all t
Tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation, and such schemes as privatizing Social Security would divert the national treasury into private hands and give rise to "The Predator State." The real economy, Galbraith argues, has never been entirely free of government support. Now available in paperback, this timely book challenges the cult of the free market that has dominated all political and economic discussion since the Reagan revolution.Even many liberals have felt the need to genuflect before the altar of free markets, but in The Predator State, progressive economist James K. While conservatives have paid lip service to free markets as the solution to everything from health care to global warming, it is clear from the current banking and Wall Street upheavals that a lack of federal regulation has led to disaster. Indeed, he says, much of our prosperity over the decades has been the result of a mix of private enterprise and public institut