How Government Built America

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1009489372 ISBN13: 9781009489379 Release Date: May 2024 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Length: 236 Pages Weight: 0.71 lbs. Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0" How Government Built America challenges growing, anti-government rhetoric by highlighting the role government has played in partnering with markets to build the United States. Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain explore how markets can harm and fail the country, and how the government has addressed these extremes by restoring essential values to benefit all citizens. Without denying that individualism and small government are part of the national DNA, the authors demonstrate how democracy and a people pursuing communal interests are equally important. In highly engaging prose, the authors describe how the government, despite the complexity of markets, remains engaged in promoting economic prosperity, protecting people, and providing an economic safety net. Each