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A Commercial Republic: America's Enduring Debate over Democratic Capitalism (American Political Thought)
Mike O'connor
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Description for A Commercial Republic: America's Enduring Debate over Democratic Capitalism (American Political Thought)
Hardcover. Presents the longstanding debate over federal intervention as a competition among different visions of government stewardship rather than an endless battle over market liberty. Series: American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas). Num Pages: 287 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPFM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
As recently as 2008, when Presidents Bush and Obama acted to bail out the nation’s crashing banks and failing auto companies, the perennial objection erupted anew: government has no business in . . . business. Mike O’Connor argues in this book: Those who cite history to decry government economic intervention are invoking a tradition that simply does not exist. In a cogent and timely take on this ongoing and increasingly contentious debate, O’Connor uses deftly drawn historical analyses of major political and economic developments to puncture the abiding myth that business once operated apart from government. From its founding to ... Read more
As recently as 2008, when Presidents Bush and Obama acted to bail out the nation’s crashing banks and failing auto companies, the perennial objection erupted anew: government has no business in . . . business. Mike O’Connor argues in this book: Those who cite history to decry government economic intervention are invoking a tradition that simply does not exist. In a cogent and timely take on this ongoing and increasingly contentious debate, O’Connor uses deftly drawn historical analyses of major political and economic developments to puncture the abiding myth that business once operated apart from government. From its founding to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas)
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619719
SKU
V9780700619719
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About Mike O'connor
Mike O’Connor has taught U. S. history at universities in New York, Pennsylvania and Georgia. His writing has appeared in the scholarly journals Contemporary Pragmatism and The Sixties and in the newspapers Austin American-Statesman and the Daily Texan. One of the original bloggers on the U. S. Intellectual History site, O’Connor later founded (with several others) the Society for U. ... Read more
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