{"product_id":"capitalism-contested-9780812252620","title":"Capitalism Contested","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages-the first in the late nineteenth century and the second characterized by the world of Walmart, globalization, and right-wing populism in which we currently live. What defines these two ages is an increasing level of inequality legitimized by powerful ideologies, namely, Social Darwinism at the end of the nineteenth century and neoliberalism today. In stark contrast, the era of the New Deal was first and foremost an attempt to put an end to inequality in American society. In the historical longue duree, it appears today as a kind of golden age when policymakers and citizens sought to devise solutions to the two major questions-labor on one side, social on the other-that were at the heart of the American political economy during the twentieth century.   Capitalism Contested argues that the New Deal order remains an effective framework to make sense of the transforma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn impressive collection of well-researched, pointed, and thought-provoking essays. * Howard Brick, author of \u003ci\u003eTranscending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. The New Deal: A Lost Golden Age?\u003cbr\u003e Romain Huret, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Jean-Christian Vinel\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Political Economy of New Deal Reformism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Transcending the New Deal Idea of the State: Managerialism, Neoliberalism, and Democracy\u003cbr\u003e K. Sabeel Rahman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Inventing the American Economy\u003cbr\u003e Timothy Shenk\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Triumph of the Mixed Economy: The New Deal Order, Keynes, and the Genius of American Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e Jason Scott Smith\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Strange Career of Institutional Keynesianism\u003cbr\u003e Samir Sonti\u003cbr\u003e Part II. New Deal Headwinds: Contestation and Resistance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Unanticipated Consequences of New Deal Poor Relief: Welfare Rights, Empowered States, and the Revival of Localism\u003cbr\u003e Karen M. Tani\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Financing Security and Opportunity: The New Deal and the Origins of the Millennial Student Debt Crisis\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Tandy Shermer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Shackles of the Past: Constitutional Property Tax Limitations and the Fall of the New Deal Order\u003cbr\u003e Isaac William Martin\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. The Koch Network: Property Supremacist Ideology and Politics in the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003e Nancy MacLean\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Capital and Labor in the Twilight of the New Deal\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Economic Royalists and Their Kingdom in the New Deal Era and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e Nelson Lichtenstein\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. The High-Tech Revolution and the Disruption of American Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e Margaret O'Mara\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. The Other Operation Dixie: Public Employees and the Resilience of Urban Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e William P. Jones\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Constructing a New Labor Law for the Post-New Deal Era\u003cbr\u003e Kate Andrias\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405744775511,"sku":"9780812252620","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812252620.jpg?v=1730493462","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/capitalism-contested-9780812252620","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}