Two Years on the Farm of Uncle Sam

Two Years on the Farm of Uncle Sam
Author: Charles Casey
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781358889448

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Uncle Sam Can't Count

Uncle Sam Can't Count
Author: Burton W. Folsom
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0062292714

An enlightening overview of America’s misadventures in economic investment from the Revolutionary era to the Obama administration. From the days of George Washington through World War II to today, government subsidies have failed the American people time and again. Draining the Treasury of cash, this doomed attempt to “pick winners” only serves to impede economic growth—and hurt the very companies receiving aid. But why does federal aid seem to have a reverse Midas touch? In Uncle Sam Can’t Count, Burt and Anita Folsom argue that federal officials don’t have the same abilities or incentives as entrepreneurs. In addition, federal control always leads to politicization. And what works for politicians often doesn’t work in the marketplace. Filled with examples of government failures and free market triumphs, from John Jacob Astor to the Wright Brothers, World War II amphibious landing craft to Detroit, Uncle Sam Can’t Count is a hard-hitting critique of government investment that demonstrates why business should be left exclusively to private entrepreneurs.

Working in America

Working in America
Author: Catherine Reef
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1438108141

Presents an overview of the history of American labor using excerpts from primary source documents, short biographies of influential people, and more.

British Comment on the United States

British Comment on the United States
Author: Ada Nisbet
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2001-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520915824

This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.