
Politics and the Professors
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In this book, the sixteenth volume in the Brookings series in Social Economics, Henry Aaron describes both the initial consensus and its subsequent decline. He examines the evolution of attitude and pronouncements by scholars and popular writers on the role of the federal government and its capacity to bring about beneficial change in three broad areas: poverty and discrimination, education and training, and unemployment and inflation. He argues that the political eclipse of the Great Society depended more on events external to it¿war in Vietnam, dissolution of the civil rights coalition, and, finally, the Watergate scandal and all its repercussions¿than on its intrinsic failings. Aaron concludes that both the initial commitment to use national polices to solve social and economic problems and the subsequent disillusionment of scholars and laymen alike rest largely on preconceptions and faiths that have little to do with research themselves.
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- Cover
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- The Common View
- The Common View Reviewed
- The War on Poverty and the Great Society
- Appendix
- Notes
- 2. Poverty and Discrimination
- Looking Backward
- OEO, the War on Poverty, and the Great Society
- Current Views on Poverty and Discrimination
- Summary
- Notes
- 3. Education and Jobs: A Swinging Pendulum
- Naive Hopes and Simple Faiths
- Loss of Innocence
- Taking Bearings
- Notes
- 4. Unemployment and Inflation
- A Backward Glance
- New Facts, New Theories, New Policies
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 5. Faith, Intelligence, and Good Works
- The 1960s: Many Currents Join
- The Currents Diverge
- Looking Forward
- Notes
- Index
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