Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty

by Monica Prasad (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2012

  $64.58

  Monica Prasad's powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years?