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The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
Taschenbuch von Benjamin M Friedman
Sprache: Englisch

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From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan's economic policy ("Every citizen should read it," said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits.

In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M. Friedman examines the political and social histories of the large Western democracies-particularly of the United States since the Civil War-to demonstrate the fact that incomes on the rise lead to more open and democratic societies. He explains that growth, rather than simply a high standard of living, is key to effecting political and social liberalization in the third world, and shows that even the wealthiest of nations puts its democratic values at risk when income levels stand still. Merely being rich is no protection against a turn toward rigidity and intolerance when a country's citizens lose the sense that they are getting ahead.

With concrete policy suggestions for pursuing growth at home and promoting worldwide economic expansion, this volume is a major contribution to the ongoing debate about the effects of economic growth and globalization.

From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan's economic policy ("Every citizen should read it," said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits.

In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M. Friedman examines the political and social histories of the large Western democracies-particularly of the United States since the Civil War-to demonstrate the fact that incomes on the rise lead to more open and democratic societies. He explains that growth, rather than simply a high standard of living, is key to effecting political and social liberalization in the third world, and shows that even the wealthiest of nations puts its democratic values at risk when income levels stand still. Merely being rich is no protection against a turn toward rigidity and intolerance when a country's citizens lose the sense that they are getting ahead.

With concrete policy suggestions for pursuing growth at home and promoting worldwide economic expansion, this volume is a major contribution to the ongoing debate about the effects of economic growth and globalization.

Über den Autor
Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy and former chairman of the department of economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1972. The author of several scholarly works; his first trade book, Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After, was awarded the George S. Eccles Prize, awarded annually by Columbia University for excellence in writing about economics. A former investment banker, he has consulted for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and individual Federal Reserve banks. He has worked with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Science Foundation Subcommittee on Economics, and the Congressional Budget Office. Professor Friedman has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Review of Books.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface

PART I: IDEAS, THEIR ORIGINS, AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS
1. What Growth Is, What Growth Does
2. Perspectives from the Englightenment and Its Roots
3. Crosscurrent: The Age of Improvement and Beyond
4. Rising Incomes, Individual Attitudes, and the Politics of Social Change

PART II: DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
5. From Horotio Alger to William Jennings Bryan
6. From TR to FDR
7. Great Depression, Great Expectation
8. America in the Postwar Era

PART III: OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES: THE EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIES
9. Britain
10. France
11. Germany

PART IV: DEVELOPMENT, EQUALITY, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
12. Economics and Politics in the Developing World
13. Virtuous Circles, Vicious Cycles
14. Growth and Equality
15. Growth and the Environment

PART V: LOOKING FORWARD
16. Economic Policy and Economic Growth in America

Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 592
ISBN-13: 9781400095711
ISBN-10: 1400095719
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Friedman, Benjamin M
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 203 x 134 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Benjamin M Friedman
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2006
Gewicht: 0,421 kg
preigu-id: 121033918
Über den Autor
Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy and former chairman of the department of economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1972. The author of several scholarly works; his first trade book, Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After, was awarded the George S. Eccles Prize, awarded annually by Columbia University for excellence in writing about economics. A former investment banker, he has consulted for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and individual Federal Reserve banks. He has worked with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Science Foundation Subcommittee on Economics, and the Congressional Budget Office. Professor Friedman has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Review of Books.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface

PART I: IDEAS, THEIR ORIGINS, AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS
1. What Growth Is, What Growth Does
2. Perspectives from the Englightenment and Its Roots
3. Crosscurrent: The Age of Improvement and Beyond
4. Rising Incomes, Individual Attitudes, and the Politics of Social Change

PART II: DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
5. From Horotio Alger to William Jennings Bryan
6. From TR to FDR
7. Great Depression, Great Expectation
8. America in the Postwar Era

PART III: OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES: THE EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIES
9. Britain
10. France
11. Germany

PART IV: DEVELOPMENT, EQUALITY, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
12. Economics and Politics in the Developing World
13. Virtuous Circles, Vicious Cycles
14. Growth and Equality
15. Growth and the Environment

PART V: LOOKING FORWARD
16. Economic Policy and Economic Growth in America

Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 592
ISBN-13: 9781400095711
ISBN-10: 1400095719
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Friedman, Benjamin M
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 203 x 134 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Benjamin M Friedman
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2006
Gewicht: 0,421 kg
preigu-id: 121033918
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