The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth
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The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth

The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy

Norton Garfinkle

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The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth

The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy

Norton Garfinkle

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Year
2008
ISBN
9780300137804
Chapter 
I
The 
American 
Economic 
Vision
s
there 
an 
American 
economic 
vision? 
Is 
there 
some 
guid-
ing 
principle 
of
economics 
implicit 
in 
our 
Declaration 
of
Independence,
our 
Constitution,
and 
our 
form 
of
govern-
ment? 
There 
is—though 
at 
first 
glance 
this 
principle 
might
appear 
to 
have 
little 
to 
do 
with 
the 
modern 
debates 
over 
fiscal
and 
monetary 
policy,
the 
size 
of
government,
or 
the 
degree 
of
government 
regulation 
of
economic 
life.
But 
underlying 
these
modern 
debates 
is 
an 
economic 
vision 
familiar 
to 
virtually 
all
Americans:
the 
American 
Dream—the 
dream 
that 
all 
Ameri-
cans 
will 
have 
the 
opportunity 
through 
hard 
work 
to 
build 
a
comfortable 
middle-class 
life.
To 
large 
degree,
the 
history 
of
American 
economic 
pol-
icy 
making 
is 
the 
story 
of
the 
waxing 
and 
waning 
of
this
middle-class 
ideal.
When 
Alexis 
de 
Tocqueville 
visited 
Amer-
ica 
in 
the 

s,
he 
was 
struck 
by 
the 
middle-class 
character 
of
the 
country 
and 
the 
conspicuous 
absence 
of
very 
rich 
people.
In 
Tocqueville’s 
eyes,
inured 
as 
he 
was 
to 
the 
sharp 
divisions
between 
wealth 
and 
poverty 
in 
monarchical 
France,
Ameri-
cans 
seemed 
to 
be 
remarkably 
equal 
economically.
Some 
were

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter I. The American Economic Vision
  5. Chapter II. Lincoln’s Economics: The Origins of the American Dream
  6. Chapter III. The Gospel of Wealth
  7. Chapter IV. The Age of Reform
  8. Chapter V. The Business of America Is Business
  9. Chapter VI. The Renewal of the American Dream
  10. Chapter VII. The New Gospel of Wealth
  11. Chapter VIII. The Current Debate: Supply-Side vs. Demand-Side Economics
  12. Chapter IX. The Way Forward
  13. Appendix. GDP, Consumption, Investment, Employment, Unemployment, and Marginal Tax Rates 1951‒2004
  14. Notes
  15. Index
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APA 6 Citation

Garfinkle, N. (2008). The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth (1st ed.). Yale University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1089506/the-american-dream-vs-the-gospel-of-wealth-the-fight-for-a-productive-middleclass-economy-pdf (Original work published 2008)

Chicago Citation

Garfinkle, Norton. (2008) 2008. The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth. 1st ed. Yale University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/1089506/the-american-dream-vs-the-gospel-of-wealth-the-fight-for-a-productive-middleclass-economy-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Garfinkle, N. (2008) The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth. 1st edn. Yale University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1089506/the-american-dream-vs-the-gospel-of-wealth-the-fight-for-a-productive-middleclass-economy-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Garfinkle, Norton. The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth. 1st ed. Yale University Press, 2008. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.