Peddling Prosperity : Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations Booker Prize (1997) and with him

and with him

even whole organizations

though she still longs for love and friendship

the saltmarshes and estuaries of Essex

forgotten by God

Peddling Prosperity : Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations Booker Prize (1997) and with himThe past twenty years have been an era of economic disappointment in the United States. They have also been a time of intense economic debate, as rival ideologies contend for policy influence. Above all, they have been the age of the policy entrepreneur the economic snake oil salesman, right or left, who offers easy answers to hard problems. It started with the conservative economists Milton Friedman at their head who made powerful arguments against