The Limits of Social Policy

by Nathan Glazer

Book Overview

Many social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, designed to overcome poverty and provide a decent minimum standard of living for all Americans, ran into trouble in the 1980s--with politicians, with social scientists, and with the American people. Nathan Glazer has been a leading analyst and critic of those measures. Here he looks back at what went wrong, arguing that our social policies, although targeted effectively on some problems, ignored others...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674534433
• ISBN13: 9780674534438
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"