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Oreskes, Naomi.
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Big business -- United States -- History.
Corporate power -- United States.
Business and politics -- United States.
Capitalism -- United States.
Free enterprise -- United States.
United States -- Economic policy -- History.
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Oreskes, Naomi.
Big business -- United States -- History.
Corporate power -- United States.
Business and politics -- United States.
Capitalism -- United States.
Free enterprise -- United States.
United States -- Economic policy -- History.
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The
big
myth
:
how
American
business
taught
us
to
loathe
government
and
love
the
free
market
/ Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway.
by
Oreskes, Naomi.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
Call #:
330.122 O66b
Subjects
Big
business
-- United States -- History.
Corporate power -- United States.
Business
and politics -- United States.
Capitalism -- United States.
Free
enterprise -- United States.
United States -- Economic policy -- History.
ISBN:
9781635573572 (hc)
Description:
ix, 565 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-546) and index.
Summary:
"In their bestselling book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the origins of climate change denial. Now, they unfold the truth about another disastrous dogma: the “magic of the marketplace.” In the early 20th century,
business
elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new
American
orthodoxy: down with “big government” and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names; recount the libertarian roots of the Little House on the Prairie books; and tune into the General Electric-sponsored TV show that beamed free-market doctrine to millions and launched Ronald Reagan's political career. By the 1970s, this propaganda was succeeding.
Free
market
ideology would define the next half-century across Republican and Democratic administrations, giving
us
a housing crisis, the opioid scourge, climate destruction, and a baleful response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Only by understanding this history can we imagine a future where markets will serve, not stifle, democracy."--Publisher.
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Conway, Erik M., 1965-
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