Confessions of a One-armed Economist
Author : Murray L. Weidenbaum
Publisher :
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Economic forecasting
ISBN :
Author : Murray L. Weidenbaum
Publisher :
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Economic forecasting
ISBN :
Author : Gerard Sullivan
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Economics
ISBN : 9781846245701
'The Making of a One-Handed Economist' engages the reader in a series of often hilarious vignettes from the author's experiences of practising the 'dismal science' in a variety of career roles as a lecturer, project manager and consultant.
Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1576755126
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
Author : Rudolph Gerhard Penner
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877664857
The book focuses on the macro fiscal policy changes and asks what have been learned from this turbulent decade about the effects of fiscal policy on the economy.
Author : Robert M. Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0190288264
James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored the economy to focus on cultural, social, and political themes, from the birth of modern feminism to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now a scholar has stepped forward to place the economy back in its rightful place, at the center of his historical narrative. In More, Robert M. Collins reexamines the history of the United States from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, focusing on the federal government's determined pursuit of economic growth. After tracing the emergence of growth as a priority during FDR's presidency, Collins explores the record of successive administrations, highlighting both their success in fostering growth and its partisan uses. Collins reveals that the obsession with growth appears not only as a matter of policy, but as an expression of Cold War ideology--both a means to pay for the arms build-up and proof of the superiority of the United States' market economy. But under Johnson, this enthusiasm sparked a crisis: spending on Vietnam unleashed runaway inflation, while the nation struggled with the moral consequences of its prosperity, reflected in books such as John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. More continues up to the end of the 1990s, as Collins explains the real impact of Reagan's policies and astutely assesses Clinton's "disciplined growthmanship," which combined deficit reduction and a relaxed but watchful monetary policy by the Federal Reserve. Writing with eloquence and analytical clarity, Robert M. Collins offers a startlingly new framework for understanding the history of postwar America.
Author : J. A. Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415672082
First published in 1938 this is a reissue of the autobiography of influential economist J. A. Hobson.
Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Corporations, American
ISBN : 0091909104
As an Economic Hitman (EHM), John Perkins helped further American imperial interests in countries such as Ecuador, Panama, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. As Chief Economist for the international consulting firm Chas. T. Main, he convinced underdeveloped coun
Author : Robert M. Collins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2009-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0231124015
Robert Collins examines the critical and controversial developments of the 1980s and the unmistakable influence of Ronald Reagan on their making. Portraying the former president as a complex political figure who combined ideological conservatism with political pragmatism, Collins demonstrates how Reagan's policies helped limit the scope of government, control inflation, reduce the threat of nuclear war, and defeat communism. In the 1980s other changes occurred as well, including the advent of the personal computer, a revolution in information technology, a more globalized national economy, and a restructuring of the American corporation. In the realm of culture, MTV, self-help gurus, and postmodernism realized the cultural shifts of the postwar era, creating a conflict that pitted cultural conservatism against a secular, multicultural view of the world. Entertaining and erudite, Transforming America explores the events, movements, and ideas that profoundly changed American culture and politics during an important decade.
Author : Changing Domestic Priorities Project (Urban Institute)
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780877663478
Author : Matthew Lesko
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :