Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America's Lost Commitment to Competence

by Donald F. Kettl and Donald F Kettl

Book Overview

"Why big government is not the problem.

The Progressive government movement, founded on support from Republicans and Democrats alike, reined in corporate trusts and improved the lives of sweatshop workers. It created modern government, from the Federal Reserve to the nation's budgetary and civil service policies, and most of the programs on which we depend.

Ask Americans today and they will tell you that our government has hit a wall...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815728018
• ISBN13: 9780815728016
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"