The Land of Too Much - American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty

Informationen zum Autor Monica Prasad Klappentext Monica Prasad¿s powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years? Zusammenfassung Monica Prasad’s powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years?

Product details

• Authors: Prasad, Monica Prasad, Prasad Monica
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2012
• EAN: 9780674066526
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06652-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Sociology & anthropology, Poverty and precarity