Selling the Free Market
Subtitle: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness
Publisher: The Guilford Press; Guilford Press
Published: November 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781572305984
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; Libertarianism; Economic Conditions; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; United States; Business/Economics; USA; Marketing - General; Economics - General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Free Enterprise; Social choice
Description: "The book explores the key principles of free-market economics and discusses their rhetorical underpinnings. In showing how these ideas have permeated policy decisions around such contemporary issues as the minimum wage, the farm crisis, and the role of unions, Aune draws out the ways that seemingly objective arguments and terminology have been used to advance ideological ends.

He provides lively, critical readings of leading free-market intellectuals, including Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Murray." "Ably refuting both the language and the logic of the market revolution, this book will be read with interest by anyone wishing to dig beneath the surface of contemporary economic jargon."--BOOK JACKET.