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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Patient Capital -- Corruption and Integrity -- Plutocratic Blowback -- Creating Humans -- Exit from Work -- Housing and Democracy -- Climate Change and Time Horizons -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Relying on markets alone would make for a poor, dishonest, and miserable society. Banks lend for the short term, and business has to make a profit in less time than that. It succeeds brilliantly when product life is shorter than credit maturities, in retail, consumer durables, services, and some capital goods. It is governments, not markets, that engage with uncertainty, underwrite society's long-term projects, or undertake them itself. This requires integrity, but private-public intermingling engenders corruption. The Victorian legacy of honest bureaucracy is currently undermined by democratic pretensions and commercial greed. Families bring children to maturity as workers. They need protection from uncertainty. Government underpins education, social insurance, healthcare, old age, mass housing, and infrastructure. In these activities, business falters or fails on its own. The market delusion draws a veil on things that last, that matter most, on economic security, equity, compassion, knowledge, art and science. As a response to climate change it has become a threat to our very existence"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 22, 2022) |
| Subject |
Economics.
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Welfare economics.
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Free enterprise.
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Public administration.
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Public-private sector cooperation.
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Economics
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economics.
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Economics.
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Free enterprise.
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Public administration.
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Public-private sector cooperation.
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Welfare economics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021051480 |
| ISBN |
9781108866415 |
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1108866417 |
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