Title: Everything for sale
Subtitle: the virtues and limits of markets
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Commercial policy, Full employment policies, Industrial policy, Environmental policy, Economic policy, Capitalism, Free enterprise, Politique de plein emploi, Libre entreprise, Gemischte Wirtschaftsordnung, Politique publique, Politique environnementale, Politique industrielle, Politique commerciale, Capitalisme, Markteconomie, Wirtschaftspolitik, Politique economique, United states, commercial policy, Environmental policy, united states, United states, economic policy, 1993-2001, New York Times reviewed
Places: United States
Time periods: 1993-2001