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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2001
- Book Title
- A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentiet...
- ISBN
- 9780691042923
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
- Publication Name
- Perilous Progress : Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- Economic History, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Economics / General, Public Policy / Economic Policy
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 376 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691042926
ISBN-13
9780691042923
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1927573
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Perilous Progress : Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America
Subject
Economic History, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Economics / General, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2001-036265
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
"Michael Bernstein reveals the ironic development of modern economics. On the one hand, he explains how American economists have depended on the growth of democratic government coping with the instability of the twentieth century. On the other hand, he shows how they have denied the social setting of economic problems, and of the origins of their profession. In the process, Bernstein gives us the best history we have of the economics profession in the United States." --W. Elliot Brownlee, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Michael A. Bernstein has produced a first-rate analysis of the professionalization of social science. His book is not only a well-informed history of the American economics profession but also an insightful analysis of its relationship with government and a philippic against what Bernstein sees as the profession's recent self-prostitution." ---Thomas K. McCraw, Journal of American History, "Bernstein details a largely unknown and even unsuspected history of how our professional associations and journals strove from the beginning to engage the important questions, and of how they in the end lost the ability to do so." ---James K. Galbraith, The Washington Monthly, Michael A. Bernstein has produced a first-rate analysis of the professionalization of social science. His book is not only a well-informed history of the American economics profession but also an insightful analysis of its relationship with government and a philippic against what Bernstein sees as the profession's recent self-prostitution. ---Thomas K. McCraw, Journal of American History, "Professor Bernstein has written brilliantly on a subject central to the history of politics and political economy in America. The author has found a stunning amount of important and previously unexploited material in archival sources. He analyzes that material in light of the public record in a sure-handed way, reflecting his command of economic theory as well as his mastery of the historical literature. The book gives new substance and depth to our understanding of several major interrelated themes in twentieth century American history, but it also offers new insights into the more general history of economics as that discipline has been mobilized--for good or otherwise--in modern public policy processes." --Harry N. Scheiber, University of California at Berkeley, "A stunning book. Reading it, one appreciates the clarity of the narrative drive and the deftness with which many and various themes are pulled together. Historians of economic science have looked at the bits and pieces of information that Bernstein utilizes, and have like the blind man and the elephant found imperfect and partial papers to write. A Perilous Progress interweaves an intellectual history, a social history of the profession, and a political history of the interconnections of economists with public affairs. It will define, for the next several decades, what economics (at least in America) can be taken to have meant." --E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University, "Michael A. Bernstein has produced a first-rate analysis of the professionalization of social science. His book is not only a well-informed history of the American economics profession but also an insightful analysis of its relationship with government and a philippic against what Bernstein sees as the profession's recent self-prostitution."-- Thomas K. McCraw, Journal of American History, "Bernstein details a largely unknown and even unsuspected history of how our professional associations and journals strove from the beginning to engage the important questions, and of how they in the end lost the ability to do so."-- James K. Galbraith, The Washington Monthly, " A Perilous Progress explains the curious trajectory of the discipline in economics: as it gained a commanding place in American public and political life, its growing power led to its intellectual constriction and, in the end, to declining prospects for its power and influence. By examining the discipline most critical to the modern American political economy, Michael Bernstein freshly recasts the history of modern America itself." --Michael Sherry, Northwestern University, author of In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s, Bernstein details a largely unknown and even unsuspected history of how our professional associations and journals strove from the beginning to engage the important questions, and of how they in the end lost the ability to do so. ---James K. Galbraith, The Washington Monthly, "Michael A. Bernstein has produced a first-rate analysis of the professionalization of social science. His book is not only a well-informed history of the American economics profession but also an insightful analysis of its relationship with government and a philippic against what Bernstein sees as the profession's recent self-prostitution." --Thomas K. McCraw, Journal of American History, "Bernstein details a largely unknown and even unsuspected history of how our professional associations and journals strove from the beginning to engage the important questions, and of how they in the end lost the ability to do so." --James K. Galbraith, The Washington Monthly
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
330/.0973
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations ix A Note on the Notes xi Prologue. Being Ignored 1 Introduction. Professional Expertise as a Historical Problem 7 1. Shaping an Authoritative Community 15 2. Prospects, Puzzles, and Predicaments 40 3. The Mobilization of Resources and Vice Versa 73 4. On Behalf of the National Security State 91 5. Statecraft and Its Retainers 115 6. Statecraft and Its Discontents 148 Epilogue. Being Ignored (Reprise) 185 Notes 195 Bibliography and Reference Abbreviations 291 Acknowledgments 343 Index 347
Synopsis
The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating the state that nurtured it, ignoring distributive justice, and disproportionately privileging private desires in the study of economic life. Intellectual introversion has robbed it, he contends, of the very public influence it coveted and cultivated for so long. With wit and irony he examines how a community of experts now identified with uncritical celebration of ''free market'' virtues was itself shaped, dramatically so, by government and collective action. In arresting and provocative detail Bernstein describes economists' fitful efforts to sway a state apparatus where values and goals could seldom remain separate from means and technique, and how their vocation was ultimately humbled by government itself. Replete with novel research findings, his work also analyzes the historical peculiarities that led the profession to a key role in the contemporary backlash against federal initiatives dating from the 1930s to reform the nation's economic and social life. Interestingly enough, scholars have largely overlooked the history that has shaped this profession. An economist by training, Bernstein brings a historian's sensibilities to his narrative, utilizing extensive archival research to reveal unspoken presumptions that, through the agency of economists themselves, have come to mold and define, and sometimes actually deform, public discourse. This book offers important, even troubling insights to readers interested in the modern economic and political history of the United States and perplexed by recent trends in public policy debate. It also complements a growing literature on the history of the social sciences. Sure to have a lasting impact on its field, A Perilous Progress represents an extraordinary contribution of gritty empirical research and conceptual boldness, of grand narrative breadth and profound analytical depth.
LC Classification Number
HC103.B43 2001
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- j***2 (61)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchase☆☆☆ Seller. Is not the picture of actual recieved item. Listing photo was pulled from internet and used as placeholder, according to sellers listing. Thats on me for buying the cheapest one without looking at listing fully. Would have been better to not use another persons photo on seller's listing as the specific guide book advertised has reflective bits, the one i recieved did not.. At least it arrived and is decent enough to use and look at. Packed ok. Shipped promptly. Thank you.Pokemon Platinum Version: The Official Pokemon Guide (#396979033428)
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- e***u (4512)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseWell the stock photo was just that, a stock photo and the item did not include the other material shown, which I had asked about. A chance you take. Otherwise, in good shape, shipped promptly, plastic bag envelope (nothing wrong with that for the price, but subject to beatings by the PO dolts. Yes, i will still buy from them if the price is reasonable.