Introduction. The New Deal: A Lost Golden Age?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction. The New Deal: A Lost Golden Age? 1
4. Part I. The Political Economy of New Deal Reformism
5. Chapter 1. Transcending the New Deal Idea of the State: Managerialism, Neoliberalism, and Democracy 19
6. Chapter 2. Inventing the American Economy 42
7. Chapter 3. The Triumph of the Mixed Economy: The New Deal Order, Keynes, and the Genius of American Liberalism 59
8. Chapter 4. The Strange Career of Institutional Keynesianism 75
9. Part II. New Deal Headwinds: Contestation and Resistance
10. Chapter 5. The Unanticipated Consequences of New Deal Poor Relief: Welfare Rights, Empowered States, and the Revival of Localism 97
11. Chapter 6. Financing Security and Opportunity: The New Deal and the Origins of the Millennial Student Debt Crisis 112
12. Chapter 7. The Shackles of the Past: Constitutional Property Tax Limitations and the Fall of the New Deal Order 136
13. Chapter 8. The Koch Network: Property Supremacist Ideology and Politics in the Twenty- First Century 152
14. Part III. Capital and Labor in the Twilight of the New Deal
15. Chapter 9. Economic Royalists and Their Kingdom in the New Deal Era and Beyond 179
16. Chapter 10. The High- Tech Revolution and the Disruption of American Capitalism 199
17. Chapter 11. The Other Operation Dixie: Public Employees and the Resilience of Urban Liberalism 224
18. Chapter 12. Constructing a New Labor Law for the Post– New Deal Era 240
19. Notes 257
20. List of Contributors 335
21. Index 337
22. Acknowledgments 351