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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Oreskes, Naomi.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Oreskes, Naomi.       by title:      The big myth : how A...       by call number:      330.122 O66b     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Other authors:  Conway, Erik M., 1965- Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 330.122 O66b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 330.122 O66b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 330.122 O66b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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