What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality Tapa dura - 2000 - 1st Edición
de Benjamin I. Page; James R. Simmons
Primera línea
In the mid-1990s, economist Barry Bluestone wrote of an onrushing "inequality express."
Descripción de contraportada
Can governments do anything right? Can they do anything at all about the problems of poverty and inequality? Despite the recent boom in the U.S. economy, many millions of Americans have been left behind. Poverty rates remain higher than in most other industrialized countries. Income inequality has increased sharply. Yet we are sometimes told that government cannot or should not do anything about it: either these problems are hopeless, or government action is inevitably wasteful and inefficient, or globalization has made governments impotent.
What Government Can Do argues, on the contrary, that federal, state, and local governments can and should do a great deal. Benjamin I. Page and James R. Simmons detail what programs have worked and how they can be improved, while introducing the general reader to the fundamentals of social insurance programs such as Social Security and Medicaid, tax structures, minimum wage laws, educational programs, and the concept of "basic needs." Through their discussions of high-profile campaign plans, proposals, successes, and failures, they have written a readable, optimistic, and clear-headed book on government and poverty. And they find that, contrary to popular belief, government policies already do, in fact, help alleviate poverty and economic inequality. Often these policies work far more effectively and efficiently than people realize, and in ways that enhance freedom rather than infringe on it. At the same time, Page and Simmons show how even more could be-and should be-accomplished. The authors advocate many sweeping policy changes while acknowledging political obstacles (such as the power of money and organized interests in American politics) that may stand in the way. Yet even those who disagree with their recommendations will come away with a deepened understanding of how social and economic policies actually work. Exploring ideas often ignored in Beltway political discourse, What Government Can Do challenges all Americans to raise the level of public debate and improve our public policies.Detalles
- Título What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality
- Autor Benjamin I. Page; James R. Simmons
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 409
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Fecha de publicación October 1, 2000
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226644813 / 0226644812
- Peso 1.55 libras (0.70 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.3 x 6.32 x 1.18 pulgadas (23.62 x 16.05 x 3.00 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social policy, Income distribution - United States
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 00008807
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.580
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Choice, 05/01/2001, Page 1693
- Commonweal, 02/23/2001, Page 22
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2000, Page 1175
- Library Journal, 10/01/2000, Page 126
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