Poor Policy: How Government Harms the Poor
Setting out to illustrate how special-interest groups in the USA advocate policies that benefit themselves but inadvertently hurt the poor, this book shows how this inequity occurs in both product and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813328241
ISBN13:9780813328249
Release Date:April 1996
Publisher:Routledge
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
The road to recovery!!!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This is a readable, biblically based economic analysis of how and why governmental anti-poverty programs and policies have often produced the opposite of what they intended. The author shows the illogic of most of the usual poverty remedies, including government-mandated redistribution, minimum-wage laws, governmental job training programs, rent control or other housing policies, and governmental foreign aid. He sharply but accurately describes how government has mandated a pathetic level of education, and maps out the road to recovery.
Great book!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Have used Eric's ideas in classes and he has helped me greatly in developing and honing my own ideas about public policy.
Challenging and thought-provoking
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This book challenges all perspectives on government in the U.S. Very thought provoking and at times upsetting. Makes the reader want to become involved in eradicated the unfairness, and inefficiencies of today's society.
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