Sorting Out the Mixed Economy : The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas /
Offner, Amy C.
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy : The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas / Amy C. Offner. - 1 online resource (400 p.) : 22 b/w illus. 2 tables. 4 maps. - Histories of Economic Life ; 30 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language -- Introduction -- Part I. Building the Decentralized State -- Part II. Stewards of the State -- Part III. Looking Outward -- Epilogue. Sorting Out the Mixed Economy -- Notes -- Archives and Repositories , with Abbreviations -- Oral History Interviews -- Index
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The untold story of how U.S. development efforts in postwar Latin America helped lead to the dismantling of the U.S. welfare stateIn the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. These businessmen, economists, community workers, and architects went south with the gospel of the New Deal on their lips, but Latin American realities soon revealed unexpected possibilities within the New Deal itself. In Colombia, Latin Americans and U.S. advisors ended up decentralizing the state, privatizing public functions, and launching austere social welfare programs. By the 1960s, they had remade the country's housing projects, river valleys, and universities. They had also generated new lessons for the United States itself. When the Johnson administration launched the War on Poverty, U.S. social movements, business associations, and government agencies all promised to repatriate the lessons of development, and they did so by multiplying the uses of austerity and for-profit contracting within their own welfare state. A decade later, ascendant right-wing movements seeking to dismantle the midcentury state did not need to reach for entirely new ideas: they redeployed policies already at hand.In this groundbreaking book, Amy Offner brings readers to Colombia and back, showing the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury statebuilding. The untold story of how the road from the New Deal to the Great Society ran through Latin America, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy also offers a surprising new account of the origins of neoliberalism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691190938 9780691192628
10.1515/9780691192628 doi
2019940870
Economic development--Foreign influences.--Colombia
Mixed economy--Colombia.
Mixed economy--United States.
Mixed economy.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
HC197 / .O33 2019 HC125 / .O4 2020
330.97
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy : The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas / Amy C. Offner. - 1 online resource (400 p.) : 22 b/w illus. 2 tables. 4 maps. - Histories of Economic Life ; 30 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language -- Introduction -- Part I. Building the Decentralized State -- Part II. Stewards of the State -- Part III. Looking Outward -- Epilogue. Sorting Out the Mixed Economy -- Notes -- Archives and Repositories , with Abbreviations -- Oral History Interviews -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The untold story of how U.S. development efforts in postwar Latin America helped lead to the dismantling of the U.S. welfare stateIn the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. These businessmen, economists, community workers, and architects went south with the gospel of the New Deal on their lips, but Latin American realities soon revealed unexpected possibilities within the New Deal itself. In Colombia, Latin Americans and U.S. advisors ended up decentralizing the state, privatizing public functions, and launching austere social welfare programs. By the 1960s, they had remade the country's housing projects, river valleys, and universities. They had also generated new lessons for the United States itself. When the Johnson administration launched the War on Poverty, U.S. social movements, business associations, and government agencies all promised to repatriate the lessons of development, and they did so by multiplying the uses of austerity and for-profit contracting within their own welfare state. A decade later, ascendant right-wing movements seeking to dismantle the midcentury state did not need to reach for entirely new ideas: they redeployed policies already at hand.In this groundbreaking book, Amy Offner brings readers to Colombia and back, showing the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury statebuilding. The untold story of how the road from the New Deal to the Great Society ran through Latin America, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy also offers a surprising new account of the origins of neoliberalism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691190938 9780691192628
10.1515/9780691192628 doi
2019940870
Economic development--Foreign influences.--Colombia
Mixed economy--Colombia.
Mixed economy--United States.
Mixed economy.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
HC197 / .O33 2019 HC125 / .O4 2020
330.97