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Advice and dissent : why America suffers when economics and politics collide / Alan S. Blinder.
American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political civilizations. Economists and politicians often talk--and act--at cross purposes: Politicians typically seek economists' "advice" only to support preconceived notions, not to learn what economists actually know or believe. Politicians naturally worry about keeping constituents happy and winning elections. Some are devoted to an ideology. Economists sometimes overlook the real human costs of what may seem to be the obviously best policy--to a calculating machine. In Advice and Dissent, Blinder shows how both sides can shrink the yawning gap between good politics and good economics and encourage the hardheaded but softhearted policies our country so desperately needs.
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- ISBN: 0465094171
- ISBN: 9780465094172
- Physical Description: 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First hardback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, [2018]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The lamppost theory of economic policy -- Clashing civilizations -- Lost horizons? -- Madison's curse meets Madison Avenue -- The media are the messengers -- Murphy's law of economic policy -- Wanted: hard-headed but soft-hearted policies -- Trade disagreements -- With liberty and inequality for all? -- The political quicksand of tax reform -- Toward remedies: moving the needle -- Toward remedies: moving the line -- Last word: on bridging the gap. |
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Subject: | Economics > Political aspects > United States. United States > Economic conditions. United States > Economic policy. United States > Politics and government. |