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

By: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: xxvii, 334 p. : 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780190055479 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.850973 EIC
Contents:
Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. THE EMBATTLED AMERICAN FAMILY 1. What Went Wrong with the American Dream? 2. America's Free-Market Family Policy 3. The Overworked American Parent 4. The Economics of Disconnected Adults and Unstable Families 5. How We Fail Our Children: Part I-The Caretaking Young Children Need 6. How We Fail Our Children: Part II-Young Children from Poor and Low-Income Families 7. Outcomes for Children in the Free-Market Family System PART II. THE ROAD TO FREE-MARKET FAMILY POLICY 8. Insulating Families from Market Forces-The Rise of the Welfare State 9. The Death of the Welfare State and the Rise of Free-Market Family Policy PART III. REVIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM 10. What's an Economy For? 11. Toward Thriving Families Notes References
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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. THE EMBATTLED AMERICAN FAMILY
1. What Went Wrong with the American Dream?
2. America's Free-Market Family Policy
3. The Overworked American Parent
4. The Economics of Disconnected Adults and Unstable Families
5. How We Fail Our Children: Part I-The Caretaking Young Children Need
6. How We Fail Our Children: Part II-Young Children from Poor and Low-Income Families
7. Outcomes for Children in the Free-Market Family System
PART II. THE ROAD TO FREE-MARKET FAMILY POLICY
8. Insulating Families from Market Forces-The Rise of the Welfare State
9. The Death of the Welfare State and the Rise of Free-Market Family Policy
PART III. REVIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM
10. What's an Economy For?
11. Toward Thriving Families
Notes
References