{"product_id":"the-free-market-family-how-the-market-crushed-the-american-dream-and-how-it-can-be-restored-9780190055479","title":"The Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored)","description":"US 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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maxine Eichner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190055479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Eichner \u003c\/strong\u003eEichner is the Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University Of North Carolina School Of Law. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Supportive State: Families, Government, and America's Political Ideals.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40435087048819,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":37.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ae260586-2fca-4d4a-b9bf-1cb33bb241c2.jpg?v=1663076718","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-free-market-family-how-the-market-crushed-the-american-dream-and-how-it-can-be-restored-9780190055479","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}