H Public Economics

摘要

Presents a challenge to the popular economic case against big government and considers whether big-government and high-tax nations can prosper. Discusses the danger of an ideology; the evidence; looking-back narratives from the right and left; the myth of laissez-faire; the many uses of government in the 1800s; government as an agent of change in the 1900s; the economic benefits of government; resisting a pragmatic government; the history of change; the new challenge to the standard of living; the broad threat to the American promise; whether it's just inequality; when knowledge also changes; the purpose of government; forsaking pragmatism for ideology; pessimism in America; the failure of conventional wisdom; whether America has the money; and an agenda. Madrick is Senior Fellow in the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. Index.