The Stupendous US Record Gets Suppressed

Amity Shlaes

No 151, mBank - CASE Seminar Proceedings from CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research

Abstract: In recent years, the consensus regarding the American past has slipped leftward, and then leftward again. No longer is American history a story of opportunity, or of military or domestic triumph. America’s has become, rather, a story of wrongs, racial and social. Today, any historical figure who failed at any time to support abolition, or, worse, took the Confederate side in the Civil War, must be expunged from history. Wrongs must be righted, and equality of result enforced.

Keywords: USA; contemporary economic history; progressives versus proponents of free markets; economic growth; welfare state; taxes; redistribution policies; the role of markets; the role of government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2018-03
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