Everything for sale : the virtues and limits of markets / Robert Kuttner
- Bib ID:
- 2905992
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kuttner, Robert
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997
- xvi, 410 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0394583922 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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Robert Kuttner's quarrel, in this provocative and illuminating book, is not with capitalism per se or with a broad role for market forces: "Consumption is doubtless pleasurable," he writes, "and no one minds a high material standard of living." His dispute is rather with the current libertarian or laissez-faire direction of both economic practice and economic theory that has been gradually gaining in prominence since the mid-197Os. Champions of this approach extol the unfettered marketplace and trust in its ability to increase wealth, promote innovation, and "optimize outcomes" - and to regulate itself flawlessly all the while.
In Everything for Sale, Kuttner makes a powerful case for the mixed economy, in which government steps in to override markets for a variety of reasons: to stabilize monetary forces, to promote growth, to temper inequalities, to cultivate civic virtues. It is the system that, Kuttner contends, holds the greatest hope for a flourishing twenty-first century. His concrete observations and clear analyses, purged of jargon, address themselves to every layperson, businessperson, policy-maker, and open-minded economist in America.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Resurgent Market
- 2. The Imperial Market
- 3. The Market for Labor
- 4. Markets and Medicine
- 5. Money Markets and the Corporation
- 6. Markets, Innovation, and Growth
- 7. Regulated Competition
- 8. Regulating the Human Environment
- 9. Markets and Politics.
- Notes:
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- "A Twentieth Century Fund book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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