Faith in the free market - the idea that, for instance, profit-seeking managed care companies will improve the health care delivery system - has become a basic tenet of public policy debate. But as Joel Blau demonstrates in this eye-opening book, so-called "free market" programmes have been a...

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Turn to the Market -- 1 The Triumph of the Market -- 2 Business Moves: Markets, Nations, and Inequality -- 3 Disposable Workers -- 4 The Low-Wage, Low-Skill Strategy -- Part II: The Path Upward? -- 5 Education: Choice, Profit, and...