William M. Epstein
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William M. Epstein

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William M. Epstein is the author of eleven books and many articles in scholarly journals. The core themes address inequality, the theory of social and policy decision making, and the effectiveness of social welfare programs. His work traces back to broadly held social values rather than conspiracies of elites, business, government, or hidden forces of evil. Embedded American preferences account for the culture's many cruelties and inadequacies. In addition to teaching social welfare at United States universities and one in Hong Kong, he worked as a community organizer, consultant, researcher, and administrator for the United States Public Health Service, the governor's office of the State of Mississippi, the National Academy of Sciences and social welfare organizations. William M. Epstein (2025) Climate Change, Social Inequality, and Doom Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. William M. Epstein (2019) Psychotherapy and the Social Clinic in the United States: Soothing Fictions Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. William M. Epstein (2017) The Masses are the Ruling Classes: Policy Romanticism, Democratic Populism and American Social Welfare New York: Oxford University Press. William M. Epstein (2013). Empowerment as Ceremony New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers. William M. Epstein 2010. Democracy without Decency: Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty State Park, PA: Penn State University Press. William M. Epstein. 2006. Psychotherapy as Religion: The Civil Divine in America Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press. William M. Epstein. 2002. American Policy Making: Welfare as Ritual Boulder, Colorado: Rowman and Littlefield. William M. Epstein. 1999. Children Who Could Have Been: The Legacy of Child Welfare in Wealthy America. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. William M. Epstein. 1997. Welfare in America: How Social Science Fails the Poor. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. William M. Epstein. 1995. The Illusion of Psychotherapy. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers. William M. Epstein. 1993. The Dilemma of American Social Welfare. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers. Reissued in 2012.
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