Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

by Elizabeth Popp Berman

Book Overview

The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s--and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today

For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691248885
• ISBN13: 9780691248882
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"