TY - BOOK AU - Loeppky,Rodney TI - A Deal They Can’t Resist: Adaptive Accumulation and American Public Policy T2 - De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences , SN - 9783110761740 AV - HD3888 .L64 2022 U1 - 338.9/25 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Privatization KW - United States KW - Innenpolitik KW - Privatisierung KW - US-Politik KW - USA KW - Ungleichheit KW - Wirtschaftspolitik KW - Ökonomische Ungleichheit KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity KW - bisacsh KW - Inequality KW - US Political Economy KW - US Politics KW - US Public Policy, Privatization N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Chapter 1: Introduction --; Chapter 2: Adaptive Accumulation: Public Objectives, Private Revenues --; Chapter 3: The Military and Adaptive Accumulation --; Chapter 4: Health, Healthcare, and Adaptive Accumulation --; Chapter 5: Education Reform and Adaptive Accumulation --; Chapter 6: Incarceration, Detention, and Adaptive Accumulation --; Chapter 7: Conclusion—Moving Forward in America --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation, a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public programs, as a means to reroute public revenues into private revenue streams. Along the way, corporations project quasi-public aspirations as a central part of their commercial mission, as the state carves out new – or expands old – areas of accumulative growth for corporate America UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110761801 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110761801 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110761801/original ER -