| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 270 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Retreat from Prosperity; 1 The Slowdown of the 1970s; 2 The Breakup of the Keynesian Consensus; 3 The Impact of Government Deficits; Part II: From Kinship Capitalism to Corporate Industry; 4 The Traditional Craft System: Family Firms and Family Farms; 5 Corporate Industry: Demand-Determined Production; 6 The State and the Corporate Economy; 7 Transformational Growth and the Slowdown; Part III: Free Markets or Planned Prosperity?; 8 Inflation and the World Economy |
| Summary |
In a dramatic and well-argued challenge to the prevailing wisdom, Prosperity and Public Spending, first published in 1988, contends that the failure of Keynesian economics has been due to its timidity. Far from contracting, the government must expand its powers and activities, in order to achieve and maintain economic prosperity. The need for such expansion arises from the fact that the system has developed from a craft-based economy to a mass-production network with sophisticated international finance. This "transformational growth" brings about irreversible and sometimes devastati |
| Notes |
Originally published: Boston; London : Unwin Hyman, 1988 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-264) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Expenditures, Public.
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Economic development.
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economic development.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
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Economic development
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Expenditures, Public
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203857328 |
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0203857321 |
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0415571049 |
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9780415571043 |
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