The Truth about American Economics
Author | : Michael Vilkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1997-11 |
Genre | : Public welfare |
ISBN | : 9781575025735 |
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Author | : Michael Vilkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1997-11 |
Genre | : Public welfare |
ISBN | : 9781575025735 |
Author | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2011-03-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0465026303 |
Thomas Sowell “both surprises and overturns received wisdom” in this indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies (The Economist) Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the reader. These include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as mistaken ideas about urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, as well as economics fallacies about academia, about race, and about Third World countries. One of the themes of Economic Facts and Fallacies is that fallacies are not simply crazy ideas but in fact have a certain plausibility that gives them their staying power-and makes careful examination of their flaws both necessary and important, as well as sometimes humorous. Written in the easy-to-follow style of the author's Basic Economics, this latest book is able to go into greater depth, with real world examples, on specific issues.
Author | : George C. Lodge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : History of Economics Society. Conference |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : 0415133556 |
This volume demonstrates the variety and creativity of American economics and the links between American economic thought and its non- European context. It contains selected papers from the 1996 History of Economics Society Conference.
Author | : Isabel Sawhill |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0300230362 |
A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. Although many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and the federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
Author | : John Anderson Kay |
Publisher | : Allan Lane |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
We live, now more than ever before, in a world made of markets. How do they work? Why do they work? Why are they better than alternative systems of organizing economics? And why, sometimes, do they fail so catastrophically? This accessible book explains the big questions of contemporary economics. John Kay uses storytelling to show that markets cannot be detached from the societies in which they are based.
Author | : Jacob S. Hacker |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1416588701 |
Analyzes the growing divide between the incomes of the wealthy class and those of middle-income Americans, exonerating popular suspects to argue that the nation's political system promotes greed and under-representation.
Author | : Matthew Stewart |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982114193 |
"A trenchant analysis of how the wealthiest 9.9 percent of Americans -- those just below the tip of the wealth pyramid -- have exacerbated the growing inequality in our country and distorted our social values"--
Author | : Stephen Moore |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012-10-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1594036853 |
President Obama has declared that the standard by which all policies and policy outcomes are judged is fairness. He declared in 2011 that "we've sought to ensure that every citizen can count on some basic measure of security. We do this because we recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any moment, might face hard times, might face bad luck, might face a crippling illness or a layoff." And that, he says, is why we have a social safety net. He says that returning to a standard of fairness where anyone can get ahead through hard work is the "issue of our time." And perhaps it is. This book explores what it means for our economic system and our economic results to be "fair." Does it mean that everyone has a fair shot? Does it mean that everyone gets the same amount? Does it mean the government can assert the authority to forcibly take from the successful and give to the poor? Is government supposed to be Robin Hood determining who gets what? Or should the market decide that? The surprising answer: nations with free market systems that allow people to get ahead based on their own merit and achievement are the fairest of them all.
Author | : Jonathan Haskel |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691183295 |
Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term success. But this is not just a familiar story of the so-called new economy. Capitalism without Capital shows that the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the larger economic changes of the past decade, including the growth in economic inequality and the stagnation of productivity. Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake explore the unusual economic characteristics of intangible investment and discuss how an economy rich in intangibles is fundamentally different from one based on tangibles. Capitalism without Capital concludes by outlining how managers, investors, and policymakers can exploit the characteristics of an intangible age to grow their businesses, portfolios, and economies.