Monica Prasad: 2 books
Starving the Beast
Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Since the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s, Republicans have consistently championed tax cuts for individuals and businesses, regardless of whether the economy is booming or in recession or whether the federal budget is in surplus or deficit. In Starving the Beast, sociologist Monica Prasad uncovers...
The Land of Too Much
American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Monica Prasad’s powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years?