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A range of economic dogmas stressing the necessity of continuous economic growth, liberalization of trade and capital flows, and the reduction of social welfare underpin the reform programs governments encourage to roll back the functions and expenditures of the state. This book provides a comprehensive critique of these and similar dogmas, exposing their very weak basis in economic theory and their perverse effect upon human welfare and public services. This refreshingly broad and lucid account shows how it is now the market which urgently needs to be "rolled back" and prevented from further dominating politics and society.
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...timely, well written, and accessible to general and nonspecialist readers, while still being of value to those familiar with the subject.Booknews
Provides a critique of economic dogmas underlying attempts of governments to roll back the functions and expenditure of the state, exposing their weak basis in economic theory and their perverse effect on human welfare. Argues that, in the face of corruption and global capitalism, it is now the market that needs to be "rolled back" and prevented from further dominating politics and society, and that politics needs to be rescued from its present subservient role, through a reassertion of democratic political choice. The author was a professor of public administration at London School of Economics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
January 1, 2000
Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Pages
280
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312226510