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The American dream vs. the gospel of wealth :

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The American dream vs. the gospel of wealth :

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the fight for a productive middle-class economy /

Norton Garfinkle.

New Haven :

Yale University Press,

©2006.

1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) :

illustrations

The future of American democracy

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index.

The American economic vision -- Lincoln's economics : the origin of the American dream -- The gospel of wealth -- The age of reform -- The business of America is business -- The renewal of the American dream -- The new gospel of wealth -- The current debate : supply-side vs. demand-side economics -- The way forward.

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Norton Garfinkle paints a disquieting picture of America today: a nation increasingly divided between economic winners and losers, a nation in which the middle-class American Dream seems more and more elusive. Recent government policies reflect a commitment to a new supply-side winner-take-all Gospel of Wealth. Garfinkle warns that this supply-side economic vision favours the privileged few over the majority of American citizens striving to better their economic condition. Garfinkle employs historical insight and data-based economic analysis to demonstrate compellingly the sharp departure of the supply-side Gospel of Wealth from an American ideal that dates back to Abraham Lincoln, the vision of America as a society in which ordinary, hard-working individuals can get ahead and attain a middle-class living, and in which government plays an active role in expanding opportunities and ensuring against economic exploitation. Supply-side economic policies increase economic disparities and, the author insists, they fail on technical, factual, moral, and political grounds. He outlines a fresh economic vision, consonant with the great American tradition of ensuring strong economic growth while preserving the middle-class American Dream.

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American dream vs. the gospel of wealth.

0300108605

American dream versus the gospel of wealth

Democracy-- United States.

Middle class-- United States.

Supply-side economics-- United States.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economic Conditions.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economic History.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Comparative.

Democracy.

Economic history.

Economic policy.

Middle class.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Economic Conditions.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.

Supply-side economics.

United States, Economic conditions.

United States, Economic policy.

United States.

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