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发表于2024-12-25
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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, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years? Although the United States is often considered a liberal, laissez-faire state, Monica Prasad marshals convincing evidence to the contrary. Indeed, she argues that a strong tradition of government intervention undermined the development of a European-style welfare state. The demand-side theory of comparative political economy she develops here explains how and why this happened. Her argument begins in the late nineteenth century, when America's explosive economic growth overwhelmed world markets, causing price declines everywhere. While European countries adopted protectionist policies in response, in the United States lower prices spurred an agrarian movement that rearranged the political landscape. The federal government instituted progressive taxation and a series of strict financial regulations that ironically resulted in more freely available credit. As European countries developed growth models focused on investment and exports, the United States developed a growth model based on consumption. These large-scale interventions led to economic growth that met citizen needs through private credit rather than through social welfare policies. Among the outcomes have been higher poverty, a backlash against taxation and regulation, and a housing bubble fueled by "mortgage Keynesianism." This book will launch a thousand debates.
Monica Prasad is Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
太棒了!!论述非常严谨,逻辑无比缜密,但是又不会偏离对问题的真诚探讨。你所能想到的疑惑,作者都能及时给出了解释。这样的学术著作让人受益匪浅。近几年看过的最好的非虚构!需要少许经济学基础。
评分在龙哥的带领下第一次尝试的外文专著,也只能说是“读过”了,关于书的内容,诸位可参见《清华社会学评论》中有关这本书的书评
评分论点或许有待商榷(政经知识有限,无法评论),但真是难得的好看。从题目到问题到材料的编织,野心勃勃又能讲好故事,很佩服。
评分论点相当有争议,各部颇有耦合不畅之处,战线拉太长到后来贫困问题说了白说。将美国经济大发展的焦点从工业转移到农业(进而也突出后者在推动20世纪美国一系列政经改革中的政治角色);认为美国大萧条是在美国经济大爆发之际金本位货币制不敷应付而产生的一系列通缩、价格走低和消费不足危机;美国反垄断、保护农业和累进税等管制传统经计算要强于欧洲。由此出发认为受低价影响的农民强烈要求美国在20世纪放弃全国消费税改征资本和存款累进税,放松信贷管制(抵押凯恩斯主义),形成以消费为基础的增长模式,消减福利国家财源和诉求并形成私人福利机制,新自由主义崛起时将唯二长城拆毁,形成反税、信贷泡沫和贫困急剧恶化。焦点在于新自由主义崛起的悖论解释非常模糊,为何拆毁机制后会一发不可收拾,及福利国家必定降低贫困率这一假设的强度。
评分论点或许有待商榷(政经知识有限,无法评论),但真是难得的好看。从题目到问题到材料的编织,野心勃勃又能讲好故事,很佩服。
英文原版的第一段: Doctors began to notice the first cases of the strange disease in 1959. Thousands of babies with stunted limbs and other severe birth defects were being born all over Germany, Britain, Sweden, Australia, dozens of countries. Many died fr...
评分马云说:“现今中国的贫富差距是非常大的。”他也在很多的讲演中阐述“穷人思维”与“富人思维”之间区别的观点。中国的第一富豪自然秉承了西方经济学理念与思考方式——钱生钱,资本化的理财与长期获利等。《过剩之地》是关于美国贫富悖论的学术著作,但在其中不难发现中国在...
评分英文原版的第一段: Doctors began to notice the first cases of the strange disease in 1959. Thousands of babies with stunted limbs and other severe birth defects were being born all over Germany, Britain, Sweden, Australia, dozens of countries. Many died fr...
评分英文原版的第一段: Doctors began to notice the first cases of the strange disease in 1959. Thousands of babies with stunted limbs and other severe birth defects were being born all over Germany, Britain, Sweden, Australia, dozens of countries. Many died fr...
评分上世纪50年代,西欧诸国对美国的崛起感到惊恐,短短半个世纪的时间,美国的GDP翻了一百倍,谁可复制呢?所幸诸国虽热衷于探究美式增长的原因,却并未效仿它。因为巨大的财富不能跟想象中的奢侈和享受划等号,富裕掺杂了挣扎和悲伤。 比较历史学家莫妮卡·普拉萨德创作了《过剩...
The Land of Too Much pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024