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What Government Can Do: Dealing With Poverty and Inequality (American Politics and Political Economy)
Benjamin I. Page
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Paperback. Can governments do anything right? This work argues that federal, state, and local governments can and should do a great deal. It analyzes government programmes that affect Americans' food, housing, health care, education, jobs and wages, incomes and taxes. Series: American Politics & Political Economy S. Num Pages: 410 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JKS; JPA; JPQB; JPRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
410
Condition
New
Series
American Politics & Political Economy S.
Number of Pages
409
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226644820
SKU
V9780226644820
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Reviews for What Government Can Do: Dealing With Poverty and Inequality (American Politics and Political Economy)
"[A] deft and detailed defense of government activism to alleviate poverty and extreme inequality in the US.... [T]he detail with which [the authors] present their views and the richness of the overall vision make this a compelling treatise.... A sterling contribution to the ongoing discussion of what this country might or should become." - Kirkus Reviews "Since the mid-1970s, many ... Read more