The trickle-down delusion : how Republican upward redistribution of economic and political power undermines our economy, democracy, institutions, and health -and a Liberal response / John Seip, Dee Wood Harper.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Seip, John, author.
• Harper, Dee Wood, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Supply-side economics--United States.
• United States--Politics and government--21st century.
• United States--Economic policy--21st century.
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, [Maryland] : University Press of America, Inc., 2016.

Summary:

Trickle-down values have distorted not only our economic thought but also our political thought, our sociology and our concept of the rule of law. The trickle-down policies promoted by the Republican Party are undermining our economy, democracy, institutions and health. We, the American people, must return to liberalism that works.

Contents:

• Contents; Preface; Notes; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Rebirth of the Delusion That to Help the Middle Class and Poor Policies Must Help the Rich; Ideology and Terminology; The Metric and the Argument; Notes; I: The Delusional Trickle-Down Conservative Republican Virtual Reality Bubble and Liberal Refusal to Confront It; 1 The Delusional Trickle-Down Conservative Republican Virtual Reality Bubble and the 2012, 2014, and 2016 Elections and Beyond; The Romney-Ryan Campaign: "We Built It" On Deception; Conservatism's Moral Universe of "Makers" versus "Takers"; Notes
• 2 Democrats Must Elaborate On and Sustain an Anti-Trickle-Down Narrative to Defeat RepublicansBarack Obama versus Trickle-Down; The Liberal Preference to Psychoanalyze; The Liberal Inability to Communicate with Middle America; Notes; II: The Trickle-Down Delusions; 3 Trickle-Down; The Shared Authoritarian Hierarchical Vision of Trickle-Down Conservatism's Elements; Conservatism's Melding of Godliness and Selfishness; Trickle-Down Conservatism Mirrors Sixties Liberalism; Notes; 4 Trickle-Down Conservatism Versus the Facts; Facts Confronting the Delusions Supporting the Trickle-Down Delusion
• How the Facts of Trickle-Down's Failure Were Hidden in Economic TheoryNotes; 5 Trickle-Down Conservatism Versus the Classical Liberalism It Claims for Inspiration; Liberal Democracy's Trickle-Up Vision versus the Illiberal Vision of Trickle-Down; How Trickle-Down Conservatism Undermines Liberal Democracy; The Parallel Evolutions (for the Worse) of Hayek and Conservatism; Notes; 6 Trickle-Down Conservatism Versus Public Opinion; The View from Inside the Bubble: Stay the Trickle-Down Course; A Call for a Conservatism that Is Fact Based, Not Faith Based; Notes
• 7 A Narrative of Trickle-Down FailureThe Productivity/Wage Disconnect; Failure to Share the Revenues from Productivity Growth Yields Massive Growth in Inequality; Models Illustrating the Effects of Trickle-Down; Austerity Causes Slow Growth, Which Increases Deficits; A Summary Narrative of Trickle-Down Failure; Notes; 8 Trickle-Down's Rule of Law; Introduction to the Rule of Law; The Privilege Accompanying Property Ownership; Institutionalization of the Political Process as a "Free Market"-Rigged in Favor of the Propertied
• The Bush v. Gore "Second Bite" Doctrine Enunciating Equal Protection Weighted in Favor of the PropertiedHow "Freedom" Becomes an Anti-Democratic Bludgeon Wielded on Behalf of the Propertied; Extending the Rule of the Propertied and Powerful by Other Means; The Rule of Law in the "War on Terror"; Notes; III: Trickle-Up: The Way the World Really Works; 9 The Information Revolution, Globalization and Trickle-Down Versus the Poor and Middle Class; The Importance of a Job to Social Status and Self-Esteem
• The Negative Effects of the Information Revolution and Globalization Compounded by Trickle-Down

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7618-6744-9