| Description |
1 online resource (291 pages). |
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Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Contents |
Cover; The Background; The Thinkers; The Unresolved Dilemmas. |
| Summary |
In a remarkably lucid and flowing style, Loren Okroi analyzes the ideas of three leading reformer-critics in the United States and places their main arguments in the context of the economic, social, and political history of postwar America. In so doing, he provides not only a skillful introduction to American social thought since the 1950s but also a wide-ranging examination of the contemporary failures of American liberal ideology. As he explicates the works of these three men--all of whom moved easily between the academic world and the arenas of politics, government, or journalism--it bec. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
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Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989.
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Heilbroner, Robert L.
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Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006. |
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Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989. |
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Heilbroner, Robert L. |
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Economics -- United States.
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Distributive justice.
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Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Liberalism -- United States.
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Okroi, Loren J. Galbraith, Harrington, Heilbroner : Economics and Dissent in an Age of Optimism. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |
| ISBN |
9781400859337 (electronic bk.) |
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1400859336 (electronic bk.) |
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