End of Protest: How Free-Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent

by Alasdair Roberts

The United States has just gone through the worst economic crisis in a generation. Why wasn't there more protest, as there was in other countries? During the United States' last great era of free-market policies, before World War II, economic crises were always accompanied by unrest. "The history of capitalism," the economist Joseph Schumpeter warned in 1942, "is studded with violent bursts and catastrophes." In The End of Protest, Alasdair...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501707469
• ISBN13: 9781501707469
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Cornell Selects
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher