
American Amnesia
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In American Amnesia, bestselling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson trace the economic and political history of the United States over the last century and show how a viable mixed economy has long been the dominant engine of America's prosperity. We have largely forgotten this reliance, as many political circles and corporate actors have come to mistakenly see government as a hindrance rather than the propeller it once was. ?American Amnesia? is more than a rhetorical phrase; elites have literally forgotten, or at least forgotten to talk about, the essential role of public authority in achieving big positive-sum bargains in advanced societies.
The mixed economy was the most important social innovation of the twentieth century. It spread a previously unimaginable level of broad prosperity. It enabled steep increases in education, health, longevity, and economic security. And yet, extraordinarily, it is anathema to many current economic and political elites. Looking at this record of remarkable accomplishment, they recoil in horror. And as the advocates of anti-government free market fundamentalist have gained power, they are hell-bent on scrapping the instrument of nearly a century of unprecedented economic and social progress. In the American Amnesia, Hacker and Pierson explain the full ?story of how government helped make America great, how the enthusiasm for bashing government is behind its current malaise, and how a return to effective government is the answer the nation is looking for? (The New York Times).
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Paul Pierson is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Politics in Time, Dismantling the Welfare State?, and (with Jacob S. Hacker), American Amnesia: The Forgotten Roots of Our Prosperity; Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class; Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Introduction: Prosperity Lost
- Part I: The Rise of the Mixed Economy
- One: Coming Up Short
- Two: The Great Divide
- Three: The Trouble with Markets
- Four: How America Got Rich
- Five: "An Established and Useful Reality"
- Part II: The Crisis of the Mixed Economy
- Six: American Amnesia
- Seven: We're Not in Camelot Anymore
- Eight: This Is Not Your Father's Party
- Nine: The Modern Robber Barons
- Ten: A Crisis of Authority
- Conclusion: The Positive-Sum Society
- Acknowledgments
- About Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright
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