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Understanding American Economic Decline
by Michael A Bernstein  Publisher Comments The public has been painfully aware of the economy's stagnation for a long time. In this major new volume, leading thinkers in the social sciences directly confront the various economic difficulties facing the United States today. Underlying each essay...
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The Entrepreneurial Imperative: How America's Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World (and Change Your Life)
by Carl J Schramm Publisher Comments In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world's leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise: that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our...
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Restoring Fiscal Sanity: The Health Spending Challenge (Restoring Fiscal Sanity)
by Alice M Rivlin Publisher Comments Unless federal health spending can be brought under control, Americans will face substantially higher taxes, sharp reductions in other government programs, and cuts in benefits to the elderly. Families, businesses, and communities will be forced to make...
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Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America
by Bryan Jones Publisher Comments For the past 25 years, Americans have been lead to believe that government can cut taxes without adjusting future spending and not harm government finance. Simply put, our government's economic policies have not worked as advertised. That is the...
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Rebuilding Brand America: What We Must Do to Restore Our Reputation and Safeguard the Future of American Business Abroad
by Dick Martin Publisher Comments Anti-American feeling is at an all-time high. Other nations and cultures have singled out our businesses, government, and way of life for harsh scorn, widespread resentment, even violence. Rebuilding Brand America is an exploration of anti-Americanism...
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Dismantling the American Dream: Globalization, Free Trade, Immigration, Unemployment, Poverty, Debt, Foreign Dependency, More
by Kenneth Buchdahl Synopsis The book begins by reminiscing about the growth of American prosperity, but then quickly moves into exploring why the American Dream is now in decline. The book explains that our present recession may not be a typical recession from which we normally...
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America the Broke: How the Reckless Spending of the White House and Congress Are Bankrupting Our Country and Destroying Our Children's Fu
by Gerald J Swanson Publisher Comments The bestselling Bankruptcy 1995 alerted the American public about the impending crisis from ballooning deficits and debt. In response, a new administration in 1993 cut costs and raised taxes, averting disaster. Today, Gerald J. Swanson claims America is...
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Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform
by George P Shultz Publisher Comments A former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and an eminent economist tackle the biggest social issue of our time. Of all the issues swirling around the 2008 election, the staggering projected costs for the upkeep of America's largest entitlement programs...
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Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street
by Jeff Gates Publisher Comments The year 2000 is the first election year of the twenty- first century. For attorney-activist Jeff Gates, it represents the ideal occasion to own up to the failings of our political system and to pursue a more inclusive national agenda that corrects what...
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Second thoughts :myths and morals of U.S. economic history
by Donald N Mccloskey Publisher Comments This book examines the past as a way of preparing for the future. McCloskey has brought together leading economic historians who show that commonly accepted perceptions of our economic past can be wrong and, therefore, misleading. The contributors...
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Money :who has how much and why
by Andrew Hacker Publisher Comments Combining keen insight with a flair for bringing a human dimension to facts and figures, bestselling author Andrew Hacker shows how the changing economy affects our lives. His clear-eyed analysis of the data illuminates the real results of women's fight...
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Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America
by Richard H Vietor Publisher Comments This book explains how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT&T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s. The four stories illustrate the...
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Economic Apartheid in America a Primer
by Chuck Collins Synopsis An engaging activist guide to closing the gap between the rich and everyone else in America....
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Driven Abroad: The Outsourcing of America
by Ron French Book News Annotation French, an investigative reporter for The Detroit News, describes the phenomenon of outsourcing in a manner befitting his vocation, describing the outsourcing journey of one automotive "widget" and the frequently negative effects experienced by people...
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Myth America Democracy VS Capitalism
by William H Boyer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-189)....
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New Field Guide To the U.S. Economy : a Compact and Irreverent Guide To Economic Life in America (95 Edition)
by Nancy Folbre Publisher Comments Now, revised and expanded with the most recent 1994 data, this book brings key economic issues to life, reflecting the collective wit and wisdom of more than 40 progressive economists. Complete with glossary and analytical "tool kit", ten chapters range...
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Vampire State (96 Edition)
by Fred L. Block Publisher Comments An engaging look at how popular metaphors distort our economic understanding....
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Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity
by Robert Pollin Publisher Comments The US Economy Faced The Prospect Of A Serious recession even prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks. The affilictions that had deepened under both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush--wage stagnation, rising inequality, wildly inflated stock markets...
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Class War in America: How the Economic and Political Conservatives Are Exploiting Low- And Middle-Class Americans
by Charles M. Kelly Book News Annotation Conservatives, as a matter of policy and strategy, have been waging financial warfare against working-class Americans for 20 years, throughout the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations, according to Kelly, a scholar of communication, ethics, and...
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Saving Free Trade: A Pragmatic Approach
by Robert Z Lawrence Publisher Comments American Supporters of free trade are on the defensive. Record U.S. trade deficits are fueling demands from industry, Congress, and the public for tariffs, import quotas, and other protectionist measures that could reverse Americas long-standing...
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