Rich States, Poor States
Author | : Arthur B. Laffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2009-03 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : 9780982231524 |
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Author | : Arthur B. Laffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2009-03 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : 9780982231524 |
Author | : Jonathan Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-06-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781732728042 |
15th Edition
Author | : Jonathan Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022-07-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781732728035 |
14th Edition
Author | : Andrew Gelman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2009-12-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 140083211X |
On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotypes--pickup-driving red-state Republicans who vote based on God, guns, and gays; and elitist blue-state Democrats woefully out of touch with heartland values. With wit and prodigious number crunching, Andrew Gelman debunks these and other political myths. This expanded edition includes new data and easy-to-read graphics explaining the 2008 election. Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State is a must-read for anyone seeking to make sense of today's fractured political landscape.
Author | : Arthur B. Laffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : 9780985377946 |
Author | : Malcolm H. Kerr |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000310124 |
While oil wealth has enriched some Middle East Arab nations, others that lack oil resources have remained poor and are looking now to their oil-rich neighbors for development assistance. This collection of studies on the economic, social, and political relationships between the haves and the have-nots in the Middle East focuses on Egypt-the largest state in the region-and on its prospects for change based on financial assistance from other Arab countries.The authors have many disagreements about the future of both rich and poor nations in the Middle East and considerable skepticism about the possibility of transforming Egypt, but they do agree that the future must be projected in the framework of a new regional order in which oil wealth, labor migration, and liberalized national economies are fundamental realities.
Author | : Arthur B. Laffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Erik S Reinert |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541762886 |
A maverick economist explains how protectionism makes nations rich, free trade keeps them poor---and how rich countries make sure to keep it that way. Throughout history, some combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment has driven successful development everywhere from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Yet despite the demonstrable success of this approach, development economists largely ignore it and insist instead on the importance of free trade. Somehow, the thing that made rich nations rich supposedly won't work on poor countries anymore. Leading heterodox economist Erik Reinert's invigorating history of economic development shows how Western economies were founded on protectionism and state activism and only later promoted free trade, when it worked to their advantage. In the tug-of-war between the gospel of government intervention and free-market purists, the issue is not that one is more correct, but that the winning nation tends to favor whatever benefits them most. As Western countries begin to sense that the rules of the game they set were rigged, Reinert's classic book gains new urgency. His unique and edifying approach to the history of economic development is critical reading for anyone who wants to understand how we got here and what to do next, especially now that we aren't so sure we'll be the winners anymore.
Author | : Kenneth Scheve |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691178291 |
A groundbreaking history of why governments do—and don't—tax the rich In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens—and their answers may surprise you. Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Scheve and Stasavage argue that governments don't tax the rich just because inequality is high or rising—they do it when people believe that such taxes compensate for the state unfairly privileging the wealthy. Progressive taxation saw its heyday in the twentieth century, when compensatory arguments for taxing the rich focused on unequal sacrifice in mass warfare. Today, as technology gives rise to wars of more limited mobilization, such arguments are no longer persuasive. Taxing the Rich shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made.
Author | : Caroline Freund |
Publisher | : Peterson Institute for International Economics |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2016-02-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0881327042 |
Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The accelerated industrial growth spurs economic prosperity for some, but it also widens the gap between the super rich and the rest of the population, especially the very poor. In Rich People Poor Countries, Caroline Freund identifies and analyzes nearly 700 emerging-market billionaires whose net worth adds up to more than $2 trillion. Freund finds that these titans of industry are propelling poor countries out of their small-scale production and agricultural past and into a future of multinational industry and service-based mega firms. And more often than not, the new billionaires are using their newfound acumen to navigate the globalized economy, without necessarily relying on political connections, inheritance, or privileged access to resources. This story of emerging-market billionaires and the global businesses they create dramatically illuminates the process of industrialization in the modern world economy.