Sorting out the mixed economy : the rise and fall of welfare and developmental states in the Americas / Amy C. Offner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Offner, Amy C., author.

Series:

Histories of economic life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mixed economy.

Economic development.

International economic relations.

United States--Foreign economic relations--Colombia.

United States.

Colombia--Foreign economic relations--United States.

Colombia.

Mixed economy--Colombia.

Economic development--Colombia--Foreign influences.

Mixed economy--United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"The untold story of how U.S. development efforts in postwar Latin America helped lead to the dismantling of the U.S. welfare state. ... In this groundbreaking book, Amy Offner brings readers to Colombia and back, showing the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury statebuilding. The untold story of how the road from the New Deal to the Great Society ran through Latin America, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy also offers a surprising new account of the origins of neoliberalism." --Dust jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Building the decentralized state

Decentralization in one valley

Land reform in local hands and local minds

Private homes and economic orders

Part II. Stewards of the state

Economics as a public mission

Management as a universal technique

Part III. Looking outward

The Great Society as good business

The American Dream comes home

Decentralization reborn

Epilogue: Sorting out the mixed economy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Offner, Amy C. Sorting Out the Mixed Economy.

ISBN:

9780691190938

0691190933

OCLC:

1089407266

Publisher Number:

99981911238