{"product_id":"free-market-family-how-the-market-crushed-the-american-dream-and-how-it-can-be-restored","title":"Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFree-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMaxine Eichner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780190055479\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOxford University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e364\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eUS families have been pushed to the wall. At the bottom of the economic ladder, poor and working-class adults aren't forming stable relationships and can't give their kids the start they need because of low wages and uncertain job prospects. Toward the top, professional parents' lives have\u003cbr\u003ebecome a grinding slog of long hours of paid work. Meanwhile their kids are overstressed by pressure to succeed and get into good colleges. In this provocative book, Maxine Eichner argues that these very different struggles might seem unconnected, but they share the same root cause: the increasingly\u003cbr\u003elarge toll that economic inequality and insecurity are taking on families. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's government rather than families that's to blame, Eichner persuasively contends. Since the 1970s, politicians have sold families out to the wrongheaded notion that the free market alone best supports them. In five decades of free-market family policy, they've scrapped government programs and\u003cbr\u003egutted market regulations that had helped families thrive. The consequence is the steady drumbeat of bad news we hear about our country today: the opioid epidemic, skyrocketing suicide and mental illness rates, deaths of despair, and mediocre student achievement scores. Meanwhile, politicians\u003cbr\u003ejust keep telling families to work a little harder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Free-Market Family\u003c\/em\u003e documents US families' impossible plight, showing how much worse they fare than families in other countries. It then demonstrates how politicians' free-market illusions steered our nation wildly off course. Finally, it shows how, using commonsense measures, we can restructure\u003cbr\u003ethe economy to work for families, rather than the reverse. Doing so would invest in our children's futures, increase our wellbeing, reknit our social fabric, and allow our country to reclaim the American Dream.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored) | Maxine Eichner | Hardcover | 9780190055479 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1749583","offer_id":48882108006552,"sku":"1749583","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71JYEtmsFEL.jpg?v=1776434582","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/free-market-family-how-the-market-crushed-the-american-dream-and-how-it-can-be-restored","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}