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Freedom Budget for all Americans and Economic Equality

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  • Enrico BELTRAMINI

    (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Avenue, Belmont CA 94002, US.)

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The Freedom Budget for All Americans, written under the supervision of Bayard Rustin and released in 1966 by the A. Philip Randolph Institute, was a well developed policy program to secure full economic citizenship for all Americans thanks to an unprecedented government investment. The program challenged the classic definition of civil rights and linked increased government spending to economic justice. It never earned traction and remained at the margins of historical memory by the end of the Johnson Presidency. The recent literature on the Freedom Budget focuses on its ideological milieu and political implications and identifies the strategic errors in coalition building as the main cause of the Freedom Budget defeat. This paper concentrates on a specific element of the plan, the notion of economic equality, and states that the disagreement between radicals and liberals on such a notion ultimately caused the undoing of the coalition.

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  • Enrico BELTRAMINI, 2017. "Freedom Budget for all Americans and Economic Equality," Journal of Economic and Social Thought, KSP Journals, vol. 4(1), pages 55-66, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ksp:journ3:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:55-66
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    Keywords

    Freedom Budget; Philip Randolph; Johnson Administration; economic equality.;
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    JEL classification:

    • B29 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Other
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • B59 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Other

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