Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, Nobenefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers--And How to Fight B
by Anya Kamenetz


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In this thoroughly researched and rousing manifesto, Anya Kamenetz chronicles and questions the plight of the new "youth class": 18 — to 29-year-olds who are drowning in debt and therefore seemingly unable to "grow up." Many older adults perceive... (read more)

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Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy #4: Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
by Robert H Frank


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Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very... (read more)

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Outsourcing America Updated Edition the True
by Ron Hira


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One of the hottest, most controversial topics in the news is the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries. Outsourced jobs are extending well beyond the manufacturing sector to include white-collar professionals, particularly in information... (read more)

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Transactions and Creations
by Eric Hirsch


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British and American anthropologists and a law scholar from Papua New Guinea explore how the concept of cultural property plays within the cultural and intellectual world of the Pacific islands of Melanesia. Among their topics are legal options for... (read more)

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Essays in Economics National & Inte Volume 4
by James Tobin


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This fourth volume in the series of Nobel laureate James Tobin's classic papers represents his work since 1980. Both national and international views are intermingled among the 36 chapters on macroeconomics and fiscal policy, savings, stabilization... (read more)

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Too Stupid to Quit: Banking and Business Lessons Learned the Hard Way
by Richard D Jackson


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This is a book that will be helpful to readers, who are interested in banking, management practices, leadership, and the Atlanta business scene with insights of the "key movers and shakers" and the deals they consummated. It will have a strong appeal for... (read more)

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Financialization and the World Economy
by Gerald A. (edt) Epstein


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"Financialization," described in the 17 papers collected here as the awareness of increasing importance of financial markets, institutions and motives in the world economy, can be expressed both quantitatively and qualitatively to find its costs and... (read more)

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Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (Suny Series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations)
by Dan Krier


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In this timely work, Dan Krier examines the relationship between two phenomena that dominated the economic scene in the late twentieth century: the rising power of financial markets and the restructuring of American industry. He argues that corporate... (read more)

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Wage Dispersion: Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently? (Zeuthem Lecture Book)
by Dale Mortensen


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A theoretical and empirical examination of wage differentials finds that traditional theories of competition do not explain why workers with identical skills are paid differently.... (read more)

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Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets
by Richard Kuttner


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In this highly acclaimed, provocative book, Robert Kuttner disputes the laissez-faire direction of both economic theory and practice that has been gaining in prominence since the mid-1970s. Dissenting voices, Kuttner argues, have been drowned out by a... (read more)

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The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
by Michael Heller


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25 new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America. Why can’t we build them? 50 patent owners are blocking a major drug maker from creating a cancer cure. Why won’t they get out of the way? 90% of our broadcast spectrum sits... (read more)

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The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences (Vintage)
by Louis Uchitelle


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Award-winning reporter Uchitelle offers an eye-opening account of layoffs in America--how they started, their questionable necessity, and their devastating psychological impact on individuals at all income levels. He shows how layoffs are in fact... (read more)

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An Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics
by Marc Lavoie


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This book offers an easy to read introduction to post-Keynesian economics, showing that there is an alternative to neoclassical economics and its free-market economic policies. Post-Keynesian economics is founded on realistic assumptions and stylized... (read more)

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Transatlantic Economic Disputes: The Eu, the Us, and the Wto (International Economic Law Series)
by Ernst Petersmann


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Recent transatlantic relations have been plagued by a seemingly endless series of disputes over trade and other economic and political interests. Some of these disputes have been amongst the most prominent of the WTO era: the Bananas Case, the Beef... (read more)

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Prospects for a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement
by Nicholas R Lardy


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Taiwan has a special status for the United States, as both a leading high-technology economic partner and a place of political and security concern. The authors look at both the quantitative and qualitative evidence on the potential effects of a US... (read more)

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Dictionary of Trade Policy Terms
by Walter Goode


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Two thousand key terms, expressions and events associated with international trade, useful for generalists and specialists.... (read more)

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High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation
by Phillip Brown


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Today, economic success is seen as depending on the creation of a high-skilled workforce. This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of national routes to a 'high skill' economy.... (read more)

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Systemic Financial Crises: Containment and Resolution
by Patrick Honohan


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This book analyzes government policies to contain and resolve systemic financial crises.... (read more)

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