A Fabulous Failure (eBook)

The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism

Nelson Lichtenstein, Judith Stein (Autoren)

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2023
544 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24551-5 (ISBN)

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How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the rightWhen Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care to trade to labor relations. Yet by the time he left office, the nation's economic and social policies had instead lurched dramatically rightward, exacerbating the inequalities so troubling in our own time. This book reveals why Clinton's expansive agenda was a fabulous failure, and why its demise still haunts us today.Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein show how the administration's progressive reformers-people like Robert Reich, Ira Magaziner, Laura Tyson, and Joseph Stiglitz-were stymied by a new world of global capitalism that heightened Wall Street influence, undermined domestic manufacturing, and eviscerated the labor movement. Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, and Al Gore proved champions of this financialized world. Meanwhile, Clinton divided his own party when he relied on Republican votes to overhaul welfare, liberalize trade, and deregulate the banking and telecommunications industries. Even the economic boom Clinton ushered in-which tamed unemployment and sent the stock market soaring in what Alan Blinder and Janet Yellen termed a "e;fabulous decade"e;-ended with a series of exploding asset bubbles that his neoliberal economic advisors neither foresaw nor prevented.A Fabulous Failure is a study of ideas in action, some powerfully persuasive, others illusionary and self-defeating. It explains why and how the Clinton presidency's progressive statecraft floundered in a world where the labor movement was weak, civil rights forces quiescent, and corporate America ever more powerful.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: 1990s • 20th Century America • A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism • Al Gore • American capitalism • American History • balance budget • Bill Clinton • China Trade • Clinton • Clinton Administration • deficit • Derivatives • Dunlop Commission • eviscerated labor movement • financialized world • Global capitalism • Greenspan • Hilary Clinton • Industrial Policy • Ira Magaziner • Joseph Stiglitz • Judith Stein • labor historians • Larry Summers • Laura Tyson • Magaziner • NAFTA • Nelson Lichtenstein • Neoliberalism • Political Historians • Political Science • Politics • presidency • President Clinton • Princeton University Press • Reich • reinventing government • Robert Reich • Robert Rubin • Rubin • the economy stupid • undermined domestic manufacturing • Wall Street influence • welfare • welfare, era of big government
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24551-7 / 0691245517
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24551-5 / 9780691245515