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Everything you know about income inequality, poverty, and other measures of economic well-being in America is wrong. In this provocative book, a former United States senator, eminent economist, and a former senior leader at the Bureau of Labor Statistics challenge the prevailing consensus that income inequality is a growing threat to American ......
This 6-page laminated guide consists of basic macroeconomics concepts and principles, which can be used in school, home or in work place. Topics covered include: supply & demand, market equilibrium & measuring, output/income & price level, inflation & unemployment, consumption & savings, fiscal policies and much more.
How the Search for a Good Life Can Change the World
Homi Kharas looks at how the powerful dream of middle class life captivated generations, from Victorian England to present day India, but its demands have led younger generations to ask if it is all worth it. Can the middle class continue to thrive, or will it falter under the stresses of automation, consumerism, pollution, and political strife?
The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an
This controversial and counterintuitive new book examines why population growth and freedom to innovate make Earths resources more, not less, abundant.
Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Impo
This essential primer on finance and economics provides readers with a practical understanding of our economy and the ability to identify, understand, and advocate for constructive solutions to the problems we face.
In Money Shackles, Dutch Mendenhall takes readers on a transformative journey to address the financial vulnerabilities plaguing Americans. Drawing from his own poignant epiphany on a frosty New Years night, Mendenhall challenges the predefined societal notions of the American Dream. This book delves deep into the core of financial ......
By looking at the macroeconomic frameworks and experiences of countries such as Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, Restoring Sustainable Macroeconomic Policies in the U.S. presents a way for the United States to normalize fiscal and monetary policy in order to achieve sustainable debt in the post-COVID-19 era.
The New Health Economy offers leaders a 360-degree look at health care politics, policy, providers, and personalization. Drawing from interviews with industry leaders, this guide brings together the best thinking from across the sector, setting ground rules to shape US health care after COVID-19.
Can entrepreneurship serve as a pathway out of poverty? Are the poor able to create ventures that can improve their economic circumstances and enhance their lives? Poverty, Disadvantage and the Promise of Enterprise: A Capabilities Perspective argue that "it depends". To understand the poverty and entrepreneurship interface, we must first ......
The debate over Universal Basic Income (UBI) has spanned political ideologies and policy issues. What arguments for and against UBI are important to different progressive political ideologies? This book answers this question from an interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating insights from policy analysis, political theory, and philosophy.
How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad
Was inflation’s recent spike exacerbated by corporate greed? Do rent controls really help the needy? Are U.S. health care prices set in a Wild West marketplace? Do women get paid less than men for the same work, and do they pay more than men for the same products? The War on Prices is an eye‐opening book that answers all these burning ......
Slowing economic growth and debt fatigue continue to hamper fiscal policy in the United States. The question is whether there is an alternative path to the one projected in CBO long term forecasts, and if so, how citizens can choose this alternative path. The experiences of Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland reveal that an alternative path of ......
A Powerful Corrective to the Debate on Inequalty in America
Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2022, The Myth of American Inequality demonstrates that the federal government egregiously overstates the degree of inequality and poverty in the world’s wealthiest nation. In doing so, the authors--a former United ......
Deciphers the history of "Black capitalist" rhetoric-- and how it serves to enrich a minuscule few at the expense of the many In his 1970 book The Myth of Black Capitalism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson laid out a rigorous challenge to the presumption that capitalism, in any shape or form, has the potential to rectify the stark injustices endured by ......
Deciphers the history of "Black capitalist" rhetoric-- and how it serves to enrich a minuscule few at the expense of the many In his 1970 book The Myth of Black Capitalism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson laid out a rigorous challenge to the presumption that capitalism, in any shape or form, has the potential to rectify the stark injustices endured by ......
The interdisciplinary chapters in this volume explore how the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy can help us to understand culture, sociality and morality.
This book proposes a "representational" theory of capital according to which there is a relation between capital goods in the real side of the economy and instruments representative of property claims on those goods in the abstract side. Financial instruments are treated herein as a particularly liquid form of property claim. The relation proposed ......
The New Health Economy offers leaders a 360-degree look at health care politics, policy, providers, and personalization. Drawing from interviews with industry leaders, this guide brings together the best thinking from across the sector, setting ground rules to shape US health care after COVID-19.
An examination of the economic achievements and failures in a number of former communist-bloc countries, focusing on the common issues and the available options. The book also puts forward policy recommendations for the future.
This book surveys the history of the idea of capital and offers a tool to its understanding. It uses philosophy, social ontology, legal theory, and economic reasoning, particularly macroeconomic concepts from financial theory, to create an integrated concept of capital. Such concept is then applied to wealth creation and individuals' wellbeing.
This book moves beyond the moribund left versus right debate on poverty to propose a new anti-poverty agenda based on individual empowerment, free-markets, and limited government.
In this commemorative volume, India's top business leaders and economic luminaries come together to provide a balanced picture of the consequences of the country's economic reforms, which were initiated in 1991. What were the reforms? What were they intended for? How have they affected the overall functioning of the economy?
Rules-Based Policy Options for Addressing the Federal Fiscal Crisis
Can the Debt Growth be Stopped? explores new fiscal rules introduced in OECD countries to determine if new fiscal rules should be enacted in the United States. The centerpiece of the study is analysis of fiscal rules using a dynamic simulation model.
Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and world view of economic theory while maintaining the engaging and accessible style that has made earlier editions so successful. This book encourages students to think critically about the distinctive viewpoint proposed by academic economics and its influence on politics and culture.
Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and world view of economic theory while maintaining the engaging and accessible style that has made earlier editions so successful. This book encourages students to think critically about the distinctive viewpoint proposed by academic economics and its influence on politics and culture.
How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the U
The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in 2009, hopes for a new phase of economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been slow, unemployment has remained high, wages and benefits have seen little improvement,
A Review of the Trinidad and Tobago Model and Analysis of Future Chall
This book chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy. The book will be useful as a source document to students, researchers, policy makers, and anyone interested in developments in the energy sector in a small developing state.
Rules-Based Policy Options for Addressing the Federal Fiscal Crisis
Can the Debt Growth be Stopped? explores new fiscal rules introduced in OECD countries to determine if new fiscal rules should be enacted in the United States. The centerpiece of the study is analysis of fiscal rules using a dynamic simulation model.
The research described in this book suggests that a properly designed and sufficiently massive economic development assistance project-a Global Marshall Plan-could tremendously reduce the economic gap between the richest and poorest nations within a 50-year planning period.
A Review of the Trinidad and Tobago Model and Analysis of Future Chall
This book chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy. The book will be useful as a source document to students, researchers, policy makers, and anyone interested in developments in the energy sector in a small developing state.
Provides a snapshot of the issues posed by the growing concentrations of income, focusing on the United States but drawing on international comparisons to help set the context. This book examines the economic, technological, and political drivers of inequality and identify worrying trends associated with its rise.
During the 1980s, widespread dissatisfaction with America's schools gave rise to a powerful movement for educational change, and the nation's political institutions responded with aggressive reforms. Chubb and Moe argue that these reforms are destined to fail because they do not get to the root of the problem.
The Economy, the States, and the Federal Government
Examines the shifting fortunes of economic interest groups in Washington. Gary Mucciaroni addresses such compelling questions as: Why do policymakers bestow benefits on these groups in some areas of public policy but refrain from doing so in others? Why are benefits given to these industries in one period but revoked at a later time?
