The Truth about American Economics
Author | : Michael Vilkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1997-11 |
Genre | : Public welfare |
ISBN | : 9781575025735 |
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Author | : Michael Vilkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1997-11 |
Genre | : Public welfare |
ISBN | : 9781575025735 |
Author | : Price V. Fishback |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : 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 | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2011-03-22 |
Genre | : 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 | : History of Economics Society. Conference |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : 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 | : John Perkins |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2004-11-09 |
Genre | : 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 | : Jeffrey G. Madrick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780375750335 |
This book, reminiscent of the bestsellers Politics of Rich and Poor and Day of Reckoning, tells the real truth about America's long term economic decline--what caused it, what it has done to Americans, and what Americans should do about it. As the stock market soars, inflation recedes, and the federal budget deficit shrinks, the earnings of the typical American worker are still lower, adjusted for inflation, than they were a decade ago. Family income is only beginning to regain its lost ground, a higher proportion of Americans are living in poverty today than ten years ago, and the distribution of income remains the most unequal in the advanced industrial world. In this brilliantly clear, groundbreaking book, Jeffrey Madrick explains why prosperity has eluded so many Americans and why, since the early 1970s, our rate of economic growth has declined so dramatically. Madrick cuts through the illusions and hypocrisy that accompany the political rhetoric of both parties and shows that before we can fix the economy, we have to recognize what went wrong. Praise for The End of Affluence "The most straightforward account of the disappearing of the American Dream."--Commentary "In the tradition of the economists Robert Heilbroner and John Kenneth Galbraith, Mr. Madrick makes sophisticated economics easy reading."--The New York Times "One of the best books on what's happening in the American economy to be published in years."--Richard Nelson, Columbia University "For the layman looking to make sense of the 1990s economy, this is a short, accessible primer that clears away a lot of the underbrush and highlights the central truth about the American economy."--The Washington Post "Without question, The End of Affluence has begun to make a real impact on the future course of U.S. economic policy."--Richard Gephardt, Democratic leader, U.S. House of Representatives