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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: America's Free Market Myths
    sub title: Debunking Market Fundamentalism
  name:
    name part: Shaanan, Joseph.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 303 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book describes and refutes thirteen ideas involving free market principles and the US economic system, arguing that these (mostly familiar) ideas are myths. The myths are deeply ingrained in the United States' self-image and in political discourse, and are hailed as indisputable, scientifically grounded truths. Unfortunately, an economy dominated by giant corporations bears little resemblance to a free market. So why is so much effort and expense devoted to disseminating these stories? The answer is simple. The different myths generate the recommendation that the system's rewards should flow upward to corporations and a small group of wealthy and politically influential people. The myths help entrench existing economic and political power while distancing America from a more productive and widely beneficial form of capitalism.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Myth 1. America Has Free Markets -- Myth 2. A Great Wall Separates Politics and the Economy -- Myth 3. The Less Government, The Better -- Myth 4. Deregulation Always Improves the Economy -- Myth 5. The Economy Has Superior Efficiency -- Myth 6.Exceptional Living Standards -- Myth 7. An Egalitarian Nation -- Myth 8. Free Markets Protect Democracy -- Myth 9. Corporations Represent Economic Freedom -- Myth 10. Free Market and Laissez Faire Are the Same -- Myth 11. A Free Market Nation Does Not Need a Society -- Myth 12. The Government Caused the Crash of 2007-08 -- Myth 13. The Bailouts' Purpose Was to Save the Free Market Economy.
  note: by Joseph Shaanan.
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic Systems
  subject:
    topic: History of Economic Thought/Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Economy-wide Country Studies
  classification: HB1-846.8
  classification: 330.12
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319506364
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50636-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 170529
    record change date: 20170529093757.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-50636-4