The Land of Too Much:American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty

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2012-12
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  • The Land of Too Much presents a simple but powerful hypothesis that addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention starting in the 1980s, know Monica Prasad is Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. List of Figures* and Tables**
    Preface
    Part I. Explaining American State Intervention
    1. The Farmers’ Tour
    2. Comparing Capitalisms
    3. A Demand-Side Theory of Comparative Political Economy
    Part II. The Agrarian Regulation of Taxation
    4. The Non-History of National Sales Tax
    5. The Land of Too Much
    6. Progressive Taxation and the Welfare State
    Part III. The Agrarian Regulation of Finance
    7. American Adversarial Regulation
    8. The Democratization of Credit
    9. The Credit/Welfare State Trade-Off
    Part IV. Conclusion
    10. American Mortgage Keynesianism: Summary and Policy Implications
    Notes
    References
    Acknowledgments
    Index
    * Figures:
    2.1 Pre-tax and transfer inequality and post-tax and transfer inequality
    3.1 Index of industrial production, 1870–1912
    3.2 Index of agricultural output, 1869–1950
    3.3 Index of manufacturing output, 1869–1941
    3.4 Total GDP, 1820–1924
    3.5 Wholesale commodity price index, 1848–1943
    3.6 U.S. mortgage interest rates, 1869–1885
    3.7 Index of agricultural output, 1889–1929
    3.8 “How to see our wheat”
    7.1 Restrictiveness of banking regulation before 1999
    8.1 Index of activity in the building industry, 1925–1929 and 1932
    10.1 Argument of the book
    ** Tables:
    1.1 The United States compared to other industrialized countries
    3.1 GDP per capita
    4.1 Regional voting on sales tax in Congress, November 3 and 4, 1921, Republicans only
    4.2 Regional preferences for sales tax in Congress, 1932
    8.1 Regional voting on McFadden Act in House of Representatives, February 4, 1926
    9.1 The demand for credit, 1980–2005
    9.2 The effect of deregulation on credit for different levels of social spending
  • 内容简介:
    The Land of Too Much presents a simple but powerful hypothesis that addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention starting in the 1980s, know
  • 作者简介:
    Monica Prasad is Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
  • 目录:
    List of Figures* and Tables**
    Preface
    Part I. Explaining American State Intervention
    1. The Farmers’ Tour
    2. Comparing Capitalisms
    3. A Demand-Side Theory of Comparative Political Economy
    Part II. The Agrarian Regulation of Taxation
    4. The Non-History of National Sales Tax
    5. The Land of Too Much
    6. Progressive Taxation and the Welfare State
    Part III. The Agrarian Regulation of Finance
    7. American Adversarial Regulation
    8. The Democratization of Credit
    9. The Credit/Welfare State Trade-Off
    Part IV. Conclusion
    10. American Mortgage Keynesianism: Summary and Policy Implications
    Notes
    References
    Acknowledgments
    Index
    * Figures:
    2.1 Pre-tax and transfer inequality and post-tax and transfer inequality
    3.1 Index of industrial production, 1870–1912
    3.2 Index of agricultural output, 1869–1950
    3.3 Index of manufacturing output, 1869–1941
    3.4 Total GDP, 1820–1924
    3.5 Wholesale commodity price index, 1848–1943
    3.6 U.S. mortgage interest rates, 1869–1885
    3.7 Index of agricultural output, 1889–1929
    3.8 “How to see our wheat”
    7.1 Restrictiveness of banking regulation before 1999
    8.1 Index of activity in the building industry, 1925–1929 and 1932
    10.1 Argument of the book
    ** Tables:
    1.1 The United States compared to other industrialized countries
    3.1 GDP per capita
    4.1 Regional voting on sales tax in Congress, November 3 and 4, 1921, Republicans only
    4.2 Regional preferences for sales tax in Congress, 1932
    8.1 Regional voting on McFadden Act in House of Representatives, February 4, 1926
    9.1 The demand for credit, 1980–2005
    9.2 The effect of deregulation on credit for different levels of social spending
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