Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
United States of America V. Somers
Author: United States of America V. Massumynejad
Author: United States of America V. Houkal, Jr
Author: United States of America V. Wigoda
Author: United States of America V. Rakowski
Author: United States of America V. Sweeney
Author: United States Reports
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Decisions of the United States Department of the Interior
Author: United States. Department of the InteriorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
The Power of Market Fundamentalism
Author: Fred BlockPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674050711
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
What is it about free-market ideas that give them tenacious staying power in the face of such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred Block and Margaret Somers extend the work of the great political economist Karl Polanyi to explain why these ideas have revived from disrepute in the wake of the Great Depression and World War II, to become the dominant economic ideology of our time. Polanyi contends that the free market championed by market liberals never actually existed. While markets are essential to enable individual choice, they cannot be self-regulating because they require ongoing state action. Furthermore, they cannot by themselves provide such necessities of social existence as education, health care, social and personal security, and the right to earn a livelihood. When these public goods are subjected to market principles, social life is threatened and major crises ensue. Despite these theoretical flaws, market principles are powerfully seductive because they promise to diminish the role of politics in civic and social life. Because politics entails coercion and unsatisfying compromises among groups with deep conflicts, the wish to narrow its scope is understandable. But like Marx's theory that communism will lead to a "withering away of the State," the ideology that free markets can replace government is just as utopian and dangerous.
Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
March, September, and December issues include index digests, and June issue includes cumulative tables and index digest.