The big myth How American business taught us to loathe government and love the free market

Naomi Oreskes

Book - 2023

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.

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2nd Floor New Shelf 330.122/Oreskes (NEW SHELF) Due Apr 21, 2023
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing 2023.
Language
English
Physical Description
ix, 565 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-546) and index.
ISBN
9781635573572
Main Author
Naomi Oreskes (author)
Other Authors
Erik M. Conway, 1965- (author)