{"product_id":"9781610170277","title":"Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaking “free markets” from rhetoric to reality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor three decades free-market leaders have tried to reverse longstanding Keynesian economic policies, but have only produced larger government, greater debt, and more centralized economic power. So how can we achieve a \u003ci\u003etruly\u003c\/i\u003e free-market system, especially at this historical moment when capitalism seems to be in crisis?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe answer, says John C. Médaille, is to stop pretending that economics is something on the order of the physical sciences; it must be a \u003ci\u003ehumane \u003c\/i\u003escience, taking into account crucial social contexts. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToward a Truly Free Market\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eargues that any attempt to divorce economic \u003ci\u003eequilibrium\u003c\/i\u003e from economic \u003ci\u003eequity\u003c\/i\u003e will lead to an unbalanced economy—one that falls either to ruin or to ruinous government attempts to redress the balance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMédaille makes a refreshingly clear case for the economic theory—and practice—known as distributism. Unlike many of his fellow distributists, who argue primarily from moral terms, Médaille enters the economic debate on purely economic terms. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToward a Truly Free Market\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eshows exactly how to end the bailouts, reduce government budgets, reform the tax code, fix the health-care system, and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ISI Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037343760624,"sku":"9781610170277","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781610170277_p0.jpg?v=1763843378","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781610170277","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}