Title Illusions of progress : business, poverty, and liberalism in the American century / Brent Cebul

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (481 p.) Series Politics and culture in modern America Politics and culture in modern America. Contents Introduction. Locating supply-side liberalism -- Part I. Building liberalism's supply side -- Part II. Liberalism's limits -- Part III. Reinventing Government -- Epilogue: The new Democrats and the idea of the state Summary "In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul traces the rise of what he terms "supply side liberalism," a powerful and enduring orientation toward politics and the economy, race and poverty, that united local chambers of commerce, liberal policymakers and economists, and urban and rural economic planners. Beginning in the late 1930s, New Dealers tied expansive aspirations for social and, later, racial progress to a variety of economic development initiatives. In communities across the country, otherwise conservative business elites administered liberal public works, urban redevelopment, and housing programs. But by binding national visions of progress to the local interests of capital, liberals often entrenched the very inequalities of power and opportunity they imagined their programs solving. When President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty-which prioritized direct partnerships with poor and racially marginalized citizens-businesspeople, Republicans, and soon, a rising generation of New Democrats sought to rein in its seeming excesses by reinventing and redeploying many of the policy tools and commitments pioneered on liberalism's supply side: public private partnerships, market-oriented solutions, fiscal "realism," and, above all, subsidies for business-led growth now promised to blunt, and perhaps ultimately replace, programs for poor and marginalized Americans. In this wide-ranging book, Brent Cebul illuminates the often-overlooked structures of governance, markets, and public debt through which America's warring political ideologies have been expressed and transformed. From Washington, D.C. to the declining Rustbelt and emerging Sunbelt and back again,Illusions of Progress reveals the centrality of public and private forms of profit that have defined the enduring boundaries of American politics, opportunity, and inequality-in an era of liberal ascendence and an age of neoliberal retrenchment"-- Provided by publisher Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Economic development -- United States -- History -- 20th century Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States -- History -- 20th century Poverty -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century Supply-side economics -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. Capitalism Neoliberalism Poverty SUBJECT United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001001961 United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455 Subject United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781512823820 1512823821

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