Sorting out the mixed economy : the rise and fall of welfare and developmental states in the Americas /
"The untold story of how U.S. development efforts in postwar Latin America helped lead to the dismantling of the U.S. welfare state. ... In this groundbreaking book, Amy Offner brings readers to Colombia and back, showing the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press
[2019]
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| Collection: | Histories of economic life.
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvdtpk1v |
Table des matières:
- Part I. Building the decentralized state
- Decentralization in one valley
- Land reform in local hands and local minds
- Private homes and economic orders
- Part II. Stewards of the state
- Economics as a public mission
- Management as a universal technique
- Part III. Looking outward
- The Great Society as good business
- The American Dream comes home
- Decentralization reborn
- Epilogue: Sorting out the mixed economy.