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- 政治學
- 美國
- 比較政治
- 政治經濟學
- 社會學
- 美國政治
- 曆史
- 政治社會學
- 中國經濟
- 全球化
- 社會變遷
- 消費主義
- 中産階級
- 城市化
- 文化批判
- 製度分析
- 發展悖論
- 未來展望
具體描述
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.
著者簡介
Monica Prasad is Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
圖書目錄
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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延續上一本的觀點，轉而研究瞭對抗性經濟體製是如何産生的。強調農業生産過剩問題在特定政治體製中的展開以及隨之而來的有限的路徑依賴。方法上而言，從傳統史學敘事、比較曆史研究到時間序列分析都用上瞭……但是生産過剩、國際貿易體係的變化並沒有被很好的處理。隻討論瞭政府收入的結構，沒有討論政府支齣的結構。
评分論點或許有待商榷（政經知識有限，無法評論），但真是難得的好看。從題目到問題到材料的編織，野心勃勃又能講好故事，很佩服。
评分非常喜歡。核心問題是解釋為什麼戰後美國沒有建立歐洲式的福利國傢。從財稅和金融兩個角度切入，分彆解釋戰後纍進稅製、破産製度、銀行監管、信貸製度分彆是如何成形的。揭示19世紀末美國農業大發展以及中西部農業利益集團在其中扮演的重要作用。也涉及金融化、金融危機等問題。字數限製，難以展開。
评分與現有研究和學派的豐富對話，有洞見的觀點，像韋伯一樣的將各種遙遠的、破碎的元素編織在一起的能力，隻是編織得不夠緊密，對大財團和産業領導人的角色幾乎沒有提及，似乎故事不夠完整。
评分太棒瞭！！論述非常嚴謹，邏輯無比縝密，但是又不會偏離對問題的真誠探討。你所能想到的疑惑，作者都能及時給齣瞭解釋。這樣的學術著作讓人受益匪淺。近幾年看過的最好的非虛構！需要少許經濟學基礎。
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