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The Looting of Social Security: How the Government Is Draining America's Retirement Account
by Allen W Smith  Publisher Comments Every cent generated by the 1983 Social Security tax increase—money ostensibly earmarked and saved for the retirement of the baby-boom generation—is gone, spent by our government. But most Americans are ignorant of the crime. The emptying of...
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Social Security Reform (Linacre Lectures)
by Peter A. Diamond Publisher Comments Social security reform is a hot topic in many countries -- one which leads to much debate (and some widespread agreement) among economists. In this book, Peter Diamond explores social security policy, social security and the labour market, and social...
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Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (Suny Series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations)
by Dan Krier Publisher Comments 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...
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Investor Politics: The New Force That Will Transform American Business, Government, and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
by John Hood Publisher Comments This book represents an attempt to sketch out, across a host of policy topics, a realistic strategy for shrinking the welfare state. The book looks backward to human history and even to prehistory to examine the origins of capital formation. As the facts...
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Taking Back the Corporation: A Mad as Hell Guide
by Ralph Estes Publisher Comments Not so long ago, corporate America was respected. Our products set the standards for the world; corporations bore a fair share of the tax burden; employees would stay with a company until retirement; customers and workers felt a loyalty to companies like...
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A Future of Lousy Jobs?: The Changing Structure of U.S. Wages
by Gary Burtless Publisher Comments Politicians, journalists, and the public have expressed rising concern about the decline - or percieved decline - in middle-class jobs. The U.S. work force is viewed as increasingly divided between a prosperous minority that enjoys ever-rising wages and...
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A Penny for the Governor, a Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington State
by Philip J Roberts Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-185) and index....
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Name-Dropping from F.D.R On
by John K Galbraith Publisher Comments Drawing on a lifetime of intimate access to many of the great public figures of our time, the legendary economist creates a rich and uniquely personal portrait of history during the last two-thirds of the 20th century--a history he helped to shape. NPR...
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The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy, What It is and Why We Need It
by Robert Pollin Publisher Comments With almost one-third of all working people today earning wages below the official poverty line, community coalitions around the country have responded by proposing "living wage" ordinances at the municipal level. This book analyzes the specifics of this...
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New Horizons in Natural Gas Deregulation
by Jerome Ellig Publisher Comments In the natural gas industry, competition and contracting are gradually replacing monopoly and regulation. In this volume, many leading economists who follow the gas industry present their views on current and future industry trends. To help regulators...
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Social Security and Its Discontents: Perspectives on Choice
by Michael D Tanner Publisher Comments Among the issues discussed are the problems of the current system; proposals for the reform; and the impact of reform on the poor, women, and minorities....
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Recession & the Terrorist Attacks
by Louis E Boone
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American Economic History: From Abundance to Constraint
by John O'Sullivan and Edward F. Keuchel
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The jobless future :sci-tech and the dogma of work
by Stanley Aronowitz
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The A B C of the Federal Reserve System
by Edwin Walter Kemmerer
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Regulation, Federalism & Interstate Commerce
by A Dan Tarlock
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Wealth Inequality Reader
by Dollars & Sense
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Other Times, Other Places: Macroeconomic Lessons from U. S. & European History
by Charles L Schultze
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Generating Inequality Mechanisms of Dist
by Lester C Thurow
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Securing America's Future: A Bold Plan to Preserve and Expand Social Security
by Max Skidmore
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