Paul Sabin
Författare till The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
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Paul Sabin is associate professor, Department of History, Yale University. He was founding director of the Environmental Leadership Program and is the author of Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940.
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Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and… av Paul Sabin
History of Ralph Nader’s activism and the nonprofit institutions he helped create in order to put pressure on government and corporations both. Nader’s belief in individual activism over government-building contributed to the collapse of regulation a lot of times, rather than improving it, including by isolating leftists from the Democratic Party. A little depressing to see how little has changed.
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rivkat | 1 annan recension | Apr 15, 2024 |
rivkat | 1 annan recension | Apr 15, 2024 | Paul Sabin (no Wikipedia entry; spring 2023) a professor at Yale University, is a historian and a writer. His academic areas of interest include 20th century U.S. history, U.S. and global environmental history, government and political development.
The title of his 2021 book Public Citizens alludes to Public Citizen, an organization founded by the American lawyer, writer and politician Ralph Nader. The reasonably short book is informative about the political and cultural history of the USA in the period from 1945 to 2001.
Prof. Sabin starts with the opinion that New Deal Liberalism was an effective and electorally successful story that supported the success of the Democratic party and supported the belief that government was controlling business and protecting the public interest. Prof. Sabin notes that some New Deal liberal political figures involved with some federal agencies expressed concerns within the first decade after the end of the Second World War over the influence of business in generating revenue, avoiding regulation or using the regulatory process to limit its financial costs and risks. Prof. Sabin notes that books by Rachel Carson exploited public interest in conservation, and built support for public doubts whether government agencies were protecting the environment. Prof. Sabin notes that Ralph Nader’s well-publicized investigations created doubts that government agencies were protecting the interests of consumers in purchasing durable and safe products. American liberals were involved in campaigns in the 1960s to improve racial equality (“civil rights”) and to oppose U.S. military involvement in the war in Vietnam. In 1970, The Greening of America, by Charles A. Reich, was a best-selling book articulating the vision of many liberals and progressives on the environment, business, culture and politics.
Prof. Sabin explains the involvement of charitable foundations and voluntary organizations in raising funds for litigation and building membership in environmental and consumer organizations.
Prof. Sabin opines that American liberalism and the Democratic party became fragmented, and have suffered from loss of support among Southern voters and working class voters. He suggests these effects grew from mid-century liberal politics, scepticism of corporate and government bodies and the growth of blocks which emphasized block or personal interests, more than from the rise of the right wing business lobby and right-wing populism.… (mer)
The title of his 2021 book Public Citizens alludes to Public Citizen, an organization founded by the American lawyer, writer and politician Ralph Nader. The reasonably short book is informative about the political and cultural history of the USA in the period from 1945 to 2001.
Prof. Sabin starts with the opinion that New Deal Liberalism was an effective and electorally successful story that supported the success of the Democratic party and supported the belief that government was controlling business and protecting the public interest. Prof. Sabin notes that some New Deal liberal political figures involved with some federal agencies expressed concerns within the first decade after the end of the Second World War over the influence of business in generating revenue, avoiding regulation or using the regulatory process to limit its financial costs and risks. Prof. Sabin notes that books by Rachel Carson exploited public interest in conservation, and built support for public doubts whether government agencies were protecting the environment. Prof. Sabin notes that Ralph Nader’s well-publicized investigations created doubts that government agencies were protecting the interests of consumers in purchasing durable and safe products. American liberals were involved in campaigns in the 1960s to improve racial equality (“civil rights”) and to oppose U.S. military involvement in the war in Vietnam. In 1970, The Greening of America, by Charles A. Reich, was a best-selling book articulating the vision of many liberals and progressives on the environment, business, culture and politics.
Prof. Sabin explains the involvement of charitable foundations and voluntary organizations in raising funds for litigation and building membership in environmental and consumer organizations.
Prof. Sabin opines that American liberalism and the Democratic party became fragmented, and have suffered from loss of support among Southern voters and working class voters. He suggests these effects grew from mid-century liberal politics, scepticism of corporate and government bodies and the growth of blocks which emphasized block or personal interests, more than from the rise of the right wing business lobby and right-wing populism.… (mer)
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