The free-market family : How the market crushed the American dream (and how it can be restored) / Maxine Eichner.

By:

Eichner, Maxine [author.]

Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]Description: pages cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780190055479 (hardback)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.850973 EIC 23

LOC classification:

HQ536 .E349 2020

Contents:

Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The embattled American family -- What went wrong with the American dream? -- America's free-market family policy -- The over worked American parent -- The economics of disconnected adults and unstable families -- How we fail our children: Part I-The caretaking young children need -- How we fail our children: Part II-Young children from poor and low-income families -- Outcomes for children in the free-market family system -- Part II: The road to free-market family policy -- Insulating families from market forces-The rise of the welfare state -- The death of the welfare state and the rise of free-market family policy -- Part III: Reviving the American dream -- What's an economy for? -- Toward thriving families.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	General Stacks	306.850973 EIC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		37991

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Part I: The embattled American family --
What went wrong with the American dream? --
America's free-market family policy --
The over worked American parent --
The economics of disconnected adults and unstable families --
How we fail our children: Part I-The caretaking young children need --
How we fail our children: Part II-Young children from poor and low-income families --
Outcomes for children in the free-market family system --
Part II: The road to free-market family policy --
Insulating families from market forces-The rise of the welfare state --
The death of the welfare state and the rise of free-market family policy --
Part III: Reviving the American dream --
What's an economy for? --
Toward thriving families.

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