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

By: Offner, Amy C [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Histories of economic life: Copyright date: ©2019Description: xv, 381 p illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691190938; 0691190933Subject(s): Mixed economy -- Colombia | Economic development -- Colombia -- Foreign influences | Mixed economy -- United States | International economic relations | Mixed economy | Wirtschaftsbeziehungen | Wirtschaftsentwicklung | United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Colombia | Colombia -- Foreign economic relations -- United States | Colombia | United States | USA | KolumbienAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Sorting Out the Mixed Economy.DDC classification: 330.9861 LOC classification: HC197 | .O33 2019Other classification: HZ 13520 (OFF).
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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