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001 2008029706
003 DLC
005 20090619125439.0
008 080703s2009 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008029706
020 $a9780691123318 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn231587374
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043 $an-us---
050 00 $aJK421$b.M328 2009
082 00 $a320.973$222
100 1 $aMadrick, Jeffrey G.
245 14 $aThe case for big government /$cJeff Madrick.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2009.
300 $a205 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aThe public square book series
505 0 $aGovernment and change in America. The danger of an ideology ; The evidence ; Looking-back narratives from the right and left ; The myth of laissez-faire ; The many uses of government in the 1800s ; Government as an agent of change in the 1900s ; The economic benefits of government ; Resisting a pragmatic government -- How much we have changed. The history of change ; The new challenge to the standard of living ; The broad threat to the American promise ; It's not just inequality ; When knowledge also changes ; The purpose of government ; Forsaking pragmatism for ideology -- What to do. Pessimism in America ; The failure of conventional wisdom ; America has the money ; An agenda.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-194) and index.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aOrganizational effectiveness.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEconomic policy$y2001-
830 0 $aPublic square (Princeton, N.J.)