Everything for sale
Subtitle: the virtues and limits of markets
By: Robert Kuttner.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Industrial policy -- United States.; Environmental policy -- United States.; Full employment policies -- United States.; Capitalism -- United States.; Free enterprise -- United States.; United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001.; United States -- Commercial policy.
Description: "Robert Kuttner's quarrel, in this provocative and illuminating book, is not with capitalism per se or with a broad role for market forces: "Consumption is doubtless pleasurable," he writes, "and no one minds a high material standard of living." His dispute is rather with the current libertarian or laissez-faire direction of both economic practice and economic theory that has been gradually gaining in prominence since the mid-197Os. Champions of this approach extol the unfettered marketplace and trust in its ability to increase wealth, promote innovation, and "optimize outcomes" - and to regulate itself flawlessly all the while." "In Everything for Sale, Kuttner makes a powerful case for the mixed economy, in which government steps in to override markets for a variety of reasons: to stabilize monetary forces, to promote growth, to temper inequalities, to cultivate civic virtues. It is the system that, Kuttner contends, holds the greatest hope for a flourishing twenty-first century. His concrete observations and clear analyses, purged of jargon, address themselves to every layperson, businessperson, policy-maker, and open-minded economist in America."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Twentieth Century Fund book."