1st Edition

Why America Didn't Become Great Again

By Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson Copyright 2025
304 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Examining the conditions that not only blocked attempts to make America great again but also actively made the country worse, Why America Didn’t Become Great Again identifies those organizations, institutions, politicians, and prominent characters in the forefront of the economic and social policies – ultimately asking who is responsible. The period from the late 1970s to 2020s became the... Read more

Preface
List of Illustrations

1.  Making America Worse
2. A Class for Itself
3. The Capitalists
4. Companies Making Themselves Greater
5. The Economists
6. The Institutions of Government: Neither of, Nor for, the People
7. The Media – Speaking Truth for Power
8. Decline of American Presidents
9. Fork In the Road
10. Epilogue

Biography

Robert Chernomas is a professor of economics at the University of Manitoba. He was also a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University and Bucknell University. He is the co-author (with Ian Hudson and Gregory Chernomas) of The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines (2025), (with Ian Hudson) Neoliberal Lives: Work, Politics, Nature, Health in the Contemporary United States (2019), The Profit Doctrine: The Economists of the Neoliberal Era (2017), and Economics in the 21st Century: A Critical Perspective (2016).

Ian Hudson is Associate Head of the Economics and Society Stream in the Economics Department at the University of Manitoba. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas and Gregory Chernomas) of The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines  (2025), (with Robert Chernomas) Neoliberal Lives: Work, Politics, Nature, Health in the Contemporary United States (2019), The Profit Doctrine: The Economists of the Neoliberal Era (2017), and Economics in the 21st Century: A Critical Perspective (2016).