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The ends of freedom : reclaiming America's lost promise of economic rights / Mark Paul.

by Paul, Mark (Political economist), author.

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Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Economic rights -- United States -- History.

Equality -- Economic aspects -- United States.

United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.

United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century.

9780226792965 (hardcover) :

022679296X (hardcover)

329 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction -- Part I. American freedom -- States of America -- Capitalism and freedom -- America's other freedom -- Part II. Economic rights -- The right to work -- The right to housing -- The right to an education -- The right to health care -- The right to a basic income and banking -- The right to a healthy environment -- Part III. A budget for the people -- How do we pay for it? -- Conclusion.

"Economist Mark Paul considers the history of American rights and freedoms as determinants of American economic well-being. The failed promise of FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society programs to secure positive rights for all Americans (the right to a decent education, a good job, adequate health care, and a greater capacity for economic flourishing) have left the country fractured by inequality and stifled in social mobility. Paul traces this shift not only to the unrealized promise of the twentieth-century reforms, but to the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism (the conflation of freedom and markets, the vilification of government intervention in public life) as a persisting source of American injustice. Building on the history of this trend, he offers policy prescriptions to reinvigorate American equality and mobility, including economic ones for the question: how do you pay for it?"--Provided by the publisher.

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