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The private abuse of the public interest : market myths and policy muddles / Lawrence D. Brown and Lawrence R. Jacobs.
- Title
- The private abuse of the public interest : market myths and policy muddles / Lawrence D. Brown and Lawrence R. Jacobs.
- Author
- Brown, Lawrence D. (Lawrence David), 1947-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Jacobs, Lawrence R.
- Description
- ix, 151 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This work shows that conservative efforts to expand markets and shrink government often have the ironic effect of expanding a government's reach by creating problems that force legislators to enact new rules and regulations.
- Series Statement
- Chicago studies in American politics
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-144) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A return to realism -- Markets and policy: from pragmatic realism to dogmatic utopianism -- Cycles of reform: formulation and ratification of market utopianism -- Cycles of reform: institutional reality and the dystopia of markets -- The democratic disconnect and the growth of government -- Pragmatic policy in the marketplace of ideas.
- ISBN
- 9780226076423 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226076423 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226076430 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226076431 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008013578
- OCLC
- 214935085
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library