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The Pursuit of Happiness in a More Perfect Union: Creating an American Economy of Equal Opportunity

The Pursuit of Happiness in a More Perfect Union: Creating an American Economy of Equal Opportunity

Bill, Robert G.

Hardcover

EconomicsGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1524550450
ISBN13: 9781524550455
Publisher: Xlibris Corp
Published: Nov 7 2016
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The conflict between conservatives and liberals over public economic policy appears to have become a permanent feature of the American political landscape. Conservatives seek economic solutions with the market as virtually the sole organizing economic principle, invoking individualism inspired by the Declaration of Independence's right to the pursuit of happiness. Liberals look to an important economic role for a federal government established by the Constitution to promote the general welfare. In addition to the disagreement among the political class, there is also no agreement among economists, with no model reliably predicting the economic crises of recent decades. Under these circumstances, the author believes individualism and the concern for the common good may only be reconciled through policies which promote equality of opportunity or, as Abraham Lincoln expressed it, equal privileges in the race of life, with all its desirable human aspirations.

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