Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century Cebul Brent
Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century Cebul Brent Today, the word "neoliberal" is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun…
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Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century Cebul Brent
Today, the word "neoliberal" is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Beginning in the late 1930s, New Dealers tied expansive aspirations for social and, later, racial progress to a variety of economic development initiatives. Yet the roots of many of neoliberalism's policy tools can be traced to the ideas and practices of mid-twentieth-century liberalism.In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul chronicles the rise of what he terms "supply-side liberalism," a powerful and enduring orientation toward politics and the economy, race and poverty, that united local chambers of commerce, liberal policymakers and economists, and urban and rural economic planners.
But by binding In communities across the country, otherwise conservative business elites administered liberal public works, urban redevelopment, and housing programs.