The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

Galbraith, James

ISBN 10: 141656683X / ISBN 13: 9781416566830

Verlag: Free Press, 2008

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A progressive economist challenges popular conservative-minded economic practices, in a scathing critique of Reagan-Bush policies that contends that the political right is misrepresenting the consequences of free-market and free-trade ideals. 50,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Chair in Government / Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds degrees from Harvard and Yale. He studied economics as a Marshall Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and then served on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including as executive director of the Joint Economic Committee. He directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group at the LBJ School, is a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute, and is chair of Economists for Peace and Security, a global professional association.

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Titel: The Predator State: How Conservatives ...
Verlag: Free Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Very Good