The Truth about American Economics
Author : Michael Vilkin
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1997-11
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 9781575025735
Author : Michael Vilkin
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1997-11
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 9781575025735
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : George C. Lodge
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : George C. Lodge
Publisher :
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : Price V. Fishback
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226251292
The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America’s open-access society and the roles played by government in its unrivaled success story. America’s democratic experiment, the authors show, allowed individuals and interest groups to shape the structure and policies of government, which, in turn, have fostered economic success and innovation by emphasizing private property rights, the rule of law, and protections of individual freedom. In response to new demands for infrastructure, America’s federal structure hastened development by promoting the primacy of states, cities, and national governments. More recently, the economic reach of American government expanded dramatically as the populace accepted stronger limits on its economic freedoms in exchange for the increased security provided by regulation, an expanded welfare state, and a stronger national defense.
Author : History of Economics Society. Conference
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0415133556
This volume demonstrates the variety and creativity of American economics and the links between American economic thought and its non- European context. It contains selected papers from the 1996 History of Economics Society Conference.
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0465026303
Thomas Sowell “both surprises and overturns received wisdom” in this indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies (The Economist) Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the reader. These include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as mistaken ideas about urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, as well as economics fallacies about academia, about race, and about Third World countries. One of the themes of Economic Facts and Fallacies is that fallacies are not simply crazy ideas but in fact have a certain plausibility that gives them their staying power-and makes careful examination of their flaws both necessary and important, as well as sometimes humorous. Written in the easy-to-follow style of the author's Basic Economics, this latest book is able to go into greater depth, with real world examples, on specific issues.
Author : Josh Bivens
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801461138
In Failure by Design, the Economic Policy Institute’s Josh Bivens takes a step back from the acclaimed State of Working America series, building on its wealth of data to relate a compelling narrative of the U.S. economy’s struggle to emerge from the Great Recession of 2008. Bivens explains the causes and impact on working Americans of the most catastrophic economic policy failure since the 1920s. As outlined clearly here, economic growth since the late 1970s has been slow and inequitably distributed, largely as a result of poor policy choices. These choices only got worse in the 2000s, leading to an anemic economic expansion. What growth we did see in the economy was fueled by staggering increases in private-sector debt and a housing bubble that artificially inflated wealth by trillions of dollars. As had been predicted, the bursting of the housing bubble had disastrous consequences for the broader economy, spurring a financial crisis and a rise in joblessness that dwarfed those resulting from any recession since the Great Depression. The fallout from the Great Recession makes it near certain that there will be yet another lost decade of income growth for typical families, whose incomes had not been boosted by the previous decade’s sluggish and localized economic expansion. In its broad narrative of how the economy has failed to deliver for most Americans over much of the past three decades, Failure by Design also offers compelling graphic evidence on jobs, incomes, wages, and other measures of economic well-being most relevant to low- and middle-income workers. Josh Bivens tracks these trends carefully, giving a lesson in economic history that is readable yet rigorous in its analysis. Intended as both a stand-alone volume and a companion to the new State of Working America website that presents all of the data underlying this cogent analysis, Failure by Design will become required reading as a road map to the economic problems that confront working Americans.
Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 :
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Economic security
ISBN :