TY  - BOOK
AU  - Appelbaum,Binyamin
TI  - The economists' hour: false prophets, free markets, and the fracture of society 
SN  - 031651232X
AV  - HC54 .A66 2019
U1  - 330.973 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Economic history
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Economics
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Economists
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-425) and index; Markets in everything -- Friedman v. Keynes -- One nation, under employed -- Representation without taxation -- In corporations we trust -- Freedom from regulation -- The value of life -- Money, problems -- Made in Chile -- Paper fish
N2  - Tells the story of the conservative economists espousing free market and deregulatory policies during the four decades between 1969 and 2008. Leading figures such as Milton Friedman, Arthur Laffer, Walter Oi, Alfred Kahn, and Thomas Schelling believed that government should stop trying to manage the economy, and that markets would deliver steady growth and ensure that all Americans shared in the benefits. But, Applelbaum argues, these policies failed to deliver on their promise of broad prosperity, and the singleminded embrace of markets has come at the expense of economic equality, the health of liberal democracy, and future generations
ER  -