Autore	Sharpe M. E. <1928-, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (393 p.)
Disciplina	330.973
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-315-70660-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Dates, Comments, and Presidents; Advice on Reading This Book; Planning Versus Stagflation, 1973-1979; To the Lilies of the Field Who Toil Not; Economics for Sybarites; Why Economists Disagree; The Galbraithian Revolution; Of Sticky Prices and Stinking Fish: The Wage-Price Spiral; Gunnar Myrdal's Challenge; Portrait in Oil; 2074; As You Like lt; The Praise of Folly; Inflation and Defunct Ideas: President Ford's Economic Summit; The Economic Consequences of Friedrich A. von Hayek The Fear of PlanningThe Planning Bill; Reply to a Critic of Planning; Recovery Without Recovery; The Continued Existence of New York City Is Not Essential to National Security; Ten Rules for Full Employment Without Inflation; The Lost Papers of Jack Tanner; Do Economists Discover Economic Laws or Are They Passed by Congress?; How to Plan the Economy; Apologia Pro Vita Mea; The Last Chronicle of Barset; Advising Carter and Congress; The Backward Art of Giving Advice; JKG Versus the Angel; What Is an Incomes Policy All About?; Little Red Riding Hood; Searching for Homo sapiens Why a Tax-Based Incomes Policy Won't WorkAnniversaries; Once More, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy; Is Inflation Inevitable in Post-Keynesian Capitalism?; When Britain Ran Out of Wood; Back to Laissez Faire, 1988-1999; Thirty Years of Challenge; The Speaker Speaks; The Rise and Fall of the New Deal; Ownership and Control; Labor's Future; What's Wrong with Economists?; The Good Society and Its Enemies; Adam Smith: Right and Wrong; Short Takes: Pleasant and Unpleasant Reviews; The Labor Movement and Black Ghettos: Two Reviews; The Short Twentieth Century; The Theft of Russia Forty-Thousand Years of HistoryThe Past and Future of Socialism: The Communist Manifesto at 150; The Truman Show; World Development for the Few; Remembering Wassily Leontief, 1905-1999; Social Health and Social Illth; Further Down the Downward Spiral, 2005-2011; Robert Heilbroner, 1919-2005; The Biography of John Kenneth Galbraith; The Way Out of Iraq; One President, Five Disasters; New Orleans: A Modest Proposal; The Country Left the Man; Garbage; John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006; The Heavy Burden of Wealth; He's Got the Whole World in His Hands; Iraqonomics How to Become a Friend of the Next PresidentAmerica's Suicide Pact with George W. Bush; Poor People; The New New Deal; A Sick Society; Hard Times; Racism and Polite Conversation; Super-Bubble; The Case for Government; Barack Obama and the Revolution of November 4, 2008; What Keynes Knew; Postscript on the G20 Summit: What Members Can Learn from the WPA; Recovery?; Camp Runamuck; Dissatisfaction Guaranteed: An Account of Two Bubbles; Obama's Failures; The Freefall That Isn't Free; Tea Party Politics; The Futility of Force; The Crisis of Capitalism; The Failure of Capitalism; Big Money Violent Nation
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910460522403321

Autore	Haskins Ron
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (367 p.)
Disciplina	305.5/13
Altri autori (Persone)	SawhillIsabel V
Soggetto topico	Social mobility - United States Social classes - Economic aspects - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	9786612403620 0-8157-0393-7 1-282-40362-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Our Vision; Public Values and Attitudes; The Changing Fortunes of the Rich, the Poor, and the Middle Class; Opportunity in the United States; Why Family Background Matters; Perspectives on Poverty; Middle-Class Complaints; Expanding Educational Opportunity; Supporting and Encouraging Work; Strengthening Families; Paying the Bills; Appendix A: Grants, Loans, and Tax Provisions for Postsecondary Students; Appendix B: The Bush Marriage Initiative; Notes; Index; Back Cover
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455111503321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York ; ; Chichester, England : , : Columbia University Press, , 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	330.9/0511
Soggetto topico	Environmental policy - United States - History - 21st century
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-231-52786-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Climate Change: The Uncertainties, the Certainties, and What They Imply About Action -- 2. Global Climate Change: A Challenge to Policy -- 3. A New Agenda for Global Warming -- 4. A Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Protocol -- 5. Divergent Views on the Coming Dollar Crisis -- 6. U.S. Offshoring: Small Steps to Make It Win- Win -- 7. Advance Market Commitments: How to Stimulate Investment in Vaccines for Neglected Diseases -- 8. Should We Still Support Untrammeled International Capital Mobility? Or Are Capital Controls Less Evil Than We Once Believed? -- 9. The Economic Cost of the Iraq War -- 10. The High Cost of the Iraq War -- 11. Sense and Nonsense About Federal Deficits and Debt -- 12. Government Deficits and the Deindustrialization of America -- 13. Confusions About Social Security -- 14. The Many Definitions of Social Security Privatization -- 15. The Virtues of Personal Accounts for Social Security -- 16. Could Social Security Go Broke? -- 17. A Broader Perspective on the Tax Reform Debate -- 18. Tax Reform: Time for a Plan C? -- 19. Taxes on Investment Income Remain Too High and Lead to Multiple Distortions -- 20. Progressive Consumption Taxation as a Remedy for the U.S. Savings Shortfall -- 21. Was Welfare Reform Successful? -- 22. Cutting the Safety Net One Strand at a Time -- 23. The Choose- Your- Charity Tax: A Way to Incentivize Greater Giving -- 24. Should the Government Rebuild New Orleans or Just Give Residents Checks? -- 25. Does College Still Pay? -- 26. How to Deal with Terrorism -- 27. The Economics of Capital Punishment -- 28. On the Economics of Capital Punishment -- 29. The Death Penalty: No Evidence for Deterrence -- 30. Reply to Donohue and Wolfers on the Death Penalty and Deterrence -- 31. Letter: A Reply to Rubin on the Death Penalty -- 32. Reply: The Death Penalty Once More -- 33. Long- Term Perspectives on the Current Boom in Home Prices -- 34. The Menace of an Unchecked Housing Bubble -- 35. What to Do About Fannie and Freddie? -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463419903321

Autore	Skrabec Quentin R.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Algora Publishing, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (216 p.)
Disciplina	338.973
Soggetto topico	Deindustrialization - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-62894-062-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preface; Chapter 1. The Prelude - The Mont Pèlerin Society; Chapter 2. America's Different Path; Chapter 3. America's First De-Industrialization; Chapter 4. A New World Order; The Effects of Rising Fuel Prices; Chapter 5. Lordstown, The Rouge, and Conneaut; Chapter 6. And the Wolf Finally Came - the 1970's; Chapter 7. Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley Falls; Chapter 8. For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Year 1982; Chapter 9. Rubber Falls; Chapter 10. The Mon Valley Collapses; Chapter 11. The Heartland Feels the Pain; Chapter 12. Barbarians at the Gate in Detroit Chapter 13. De-Industrialization of an American Company - Jones & Laughlin (aka LTV)Chapter 14. Mont Pèlerin's Camelot in the 1990's; Chapter 15. Who Killed Saturn?; Chapter 16. Tale of the Last Two Cities; Chapter 17. A Post Industrial Age?; Chapter 18. Maybe We Need to Revisit a Whig Party Platform?; Timeline; Bibliography
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465348103321