Why read Beyond the New Deal Order?

Book cover of Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

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Ever since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal order-the combination of ideas, electoral and governing strategies, redistributive social policies, and full employment economics that became the standard-bearer for political liberalism in the wake of the…

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1 author picked Beyond the New Deal Order as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Richard R. Weiner

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A collection of exceptional scholars explore what replaced the New Deal Order’s focus on economic justice at the end of the 1970s with a regime that came to be known as neoliberalism.

This very accessible book approaches the possibility of new forms of life known as solidarity economies and with it a turn toward social-economics.

I appreciate the attempt this history book makes to both take a long view and to create a conceptual framework regarding empirical cases.

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