American Dream: Manufacturing Monetary Miasma

Geoffrey D. Klinger, Jennifer Adams () and Kevin Howley ()
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Geoffrey D. Klinger: DePauw University
Jennifer Adams: DePauw University
Kevin Howley: DePauw University

Chapter Chapter 2 in Money Talks, 2022, pp 13-30 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Over the past four decades, the United States has become a political and economic miasma, and many have suffered tremendous negative consequences because of it. Not only have we literally poisoned and polluted our environment, but we have embraced an immoral and unsustainable economic system, as well. The signs of this are everywhere, from ever-widening income inequality to obesity, drug use, violence, and mass incarceration. This chapter concludes that the so-called American Dream is proving to be unobtainable by a growing percentage of the population.

Keywords: American Dream; Economic miasma; Ideograph; Income inequality; Materialistic myth; Reaganomics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-00816-0_2

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