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UNINA9910792465603321 |
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Autore |
Newman Katherine S. <1953-> |
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Who cares? [[electronic resource] ] : public ambivalence and government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age / / Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs |
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Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2010 |
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1-282-53157-3 |
9786612531576 |
1-4008-3468-6 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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JacobsElisabeth S. <1977-> |
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Economics - United States - 20th century |
United States Economic policy 20th century |
United States Politics and government 1933-1945 |
United States Politics and government 1945-1989 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Devoted to the Common Good? -- 1. Dissent and the New Deal -- 2. Warring over the War on Poverty -- 3. Economic Anxiety in the New Gilded Age -- 4. Searching for "the Better Angels of Our Nature" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and letters to presidents from average citizens. This evidence, some of it little known, reveals a much darker, more impatient attitude toward the poor, the unemployed, and the dispossessed during the 1930's and 1960's. Katherine Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs show that some of the social policies that Americans take for granted today suffered from declining public support just a few years after their inception. Yet Americans have been equally unenthusiastic about efforts to dismantle social programs once they are |
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well established. Again contrary to popular belief, conservative Republicans had little public support in the 1980's and 1990's for their efforts to unravel the progressive heritage of the New Deal and the Great Society. Whether creating or rolling back such programs, leaders like Roosevelt, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan often found themselves working against public opposition, and they left lasting legacies only by persevering despite it. Timely and surprising, Who Cares? demonstrates not that Americans are callous but that they are frequently ambivalent about public support for the poor. It also suggests that presidential leadership requires bold action, regardless of opinion polls. |
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UNINA9910254880003321 |
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Autore |
Johnson Omotunde E. G. |
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Economic Diversification and Growth in Africa : Critical Policy Making Issues / / by Omotunde E. G. Johnson |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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[1st ed. 2016.] |
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1 online resource (V, 129 p.) |
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Economic development |
Economic policy |
Development economics |
Economic Growth |
Economic Policy |
Development Economics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction -- 2. Towards Analytic Coherence in Assessing Economic Development Policy Making: Special Reference to African Countries -- 3. Building the Capacity for Domestic Resource Mobilization in African Countries -- 4. Regional Economic Integration |
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in Africa and Intra-Regional Trade -- 5. The Export Challenges for African Countries. |
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This book presents a coherent framework for assessing economic policy making in developing countries, with special reference to those in Africa. The chapters focus on policy making issues in three critical areas that are of major importance in the African context: capacity building for domestic resource mobilization; regional integration in Africa and intra-regional trade; and export diversification of individual African countries. Although applying economic theory as well as using case studies and empirical evidence from the economics literature, the book is written in a way that makes the core ideas accessible even to readers without advanced knowledge of the technical economics involved. Economic Diversification and Growth in Africa is a timely study which demonstrates how developing countries in Africa can improve their policy making strategies to diversify their economies and accelerate economic development. Omotunde E. G. Johnson received his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, in 1970. He has taught at universities including the University of Sierra Leone and the University of Michigan, USA, and was International Monetary Fund staff member for more than 25 years. He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of African Economies and Senior Associate Member at St Antony's College, Oxford University, UK. He has published many articles in academic journals, including the Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, World Development, Kyklos, Journal of Policy Reform, and International Monetary Fund Staff Papers. |
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