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"The victory of the Cold War by the US-led West has given more credence to the belief that the market is a magic wand. In this provocative book, Debra Hevenstone attacks this widely accepted but false belief. Drawing on America's extensive experiences and fascination with market-oriented solutions in social policy, Hevenstone shows convincingly that such solutions have not only failed to achieve their stated desirable objectives but also generated undesirable, unintended consequences." - Yu Xie, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, USA
"In this wise and engagingly written book, Debra Hevenstone uses a mixture of theory, hard social science evidence, cross-national comparisons, and personal anecdotes to puncture many myths about American society and American social policy. Students will find it a pleasure to read, faculty members will find that it sparks lively classroom debates, and experts will find that it speaks uncomfortable truths." - R. Kent Weaver, Georgetown University and the Brookings Institution, USA
About the author
Debra Hevenstone is Senior Researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy
Book Subtitle: Ideological Roots of Inequality
Authors: Debra Hevenstone
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137436306
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43629-0Published: 10 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43630-6Published: 08 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 291
Topics: Development Aid, Politics of the Welfare State, Sociology of Culture, Development Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Cultural Anthropology