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We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money by Kleinbard: New
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- Publication Date
- 2016-05-01
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN
- 9780190496685
- Book Title
- We Are Better than this : How Government Should Spend Our Money
- Item Length
- 6.1in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, Political Science
- Topic
- Public Policy / Economic Policy, Government & Business, Taxation / General
- Item Width
- 9.2in
- Item Weight
- 26.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the public's preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any understanding of government's ability to complement the private sector through investment and insurance programs that enhance the general welfare and prosperity of our society at large. He argues that when we choose how government should spend and tax, we open a window into our "fiscal soul," because those choices are the means by which we express the values we cherish and the regard in which we hold our fellow citizens. Though these values are being diminished by short-sighted decisions to starve government, strategic government spending can directly make citizens happier, healthier, and even wealthier.Expertly combining the latest economic research with his insider knowledge of the budget process into a simple yet compelling narrative, he unmasks the tax mythologies and false arguments that too often dominate contemporary discourse about budget policies. Large quantities of comparative data are succinctly distilled to situate the United States among its peer countries, so that readers can judge for themselves whether contemporary budget choices really reflect our aspirational fiscal soul.Kleinbard's presentation takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on economics, finance, law, political science and moral philosophy. He uniquely weaves economic research and moral philosophy together by emphasizing our welfare, not just our national income, and by contrasting the actual beliefs of Adam Smith, a great moral philosopher, with the cartoon version of the man presented by proponents of the most extreme forms of private market triumphalism.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190496681
ISBN-13
9780190496685
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219709817
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Book Title
We Are Better than this : How Government Should Spend Our Money
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / Economic Policy, Government & Business, Taxation / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Business & Economics, Political Science
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.1in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
9.2in
Item Weight
26.9 Oz
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Table of Content
Introduction PART I: OUR FISCAL SOUL IN PERIL Chapter 1: The Happiness of Society Chapter 2: Our Descent from Moral Philosophy to Narcissism Chapter 3: Our Dismal Report Card Chapter 4: Inequality Defenders, Deniers and Dissemblers Chapter 5: The Growth Fairy PART II: STARVING OUR FISCAL SOUL Chapter 6: An Overweight Government? Chapter 7: Are High Taxes Killing Us? Chapter 8: The Hidden Hand of Government Spending Chapter 9: A Field Guide to False Fiscal Crises PART III: RECLAIMING OUR FISCAL SOUL Chapter 10: Government Investment Chapter 11: Government As Insurer Chapter 12: From Progressive Tax to Progressive Fiscal System Chapter 13: The Better Base Case Chapter 14: Conclusion: We Are Better Than This
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336.3/90973
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Trade
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23
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