Economic Policy category: 3057 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
A collection of essays by leading Chinese political economists about the economic challenges facing China today and the reforms—to everything from financial institutions to urban housing policy—that will be necessary to prepare for the next ten years.
The Great Divergence
America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul...
The Plundered Planet
Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's...
Making It
Why Manufacturing Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
A veteran New York Times economics correspondent reports from factories nationwide to illustrate the continuing importance of industry for our country.
In the 1950s, manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of US income. But over the decades, that share has gradually declined to less than...
The New Dealers
Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
This bold new analysis of the New Deal dramatically revises our vision of the Roosevelt legacy -- and of the new relation between government and business it made a central fact of American life. With impressive scholarship and narrative brio, Jordan A. Schwarz persuasively demonstrates that the New...
Breaking Through Power
It's Easier Than We Think
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The intention of this book is to crystalize Ralph Nader's core message and package it as a Thomas Paine wake up call--passionate, accessible, well-argued, story driven, and rooted in core American principles.
This title is an original work, rather than a collection of articles.
Nader's...
Obamanomics
How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Bestselling author John R. Talbott, who predicted the housing and mortgage crisis, pictures in Obamanomics--written well in advance of the historic 2008 elections--a Barack Obama presidency based on justice and cooperation—principles that have not held sway in Washington, DC, for quite some time....
Off Balance
The Travails of Institutions That Govern the Global Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Award-winning journalist and author Paul Blustein has received wide acclaim for his books about the inner workings of international economic institutions, notably the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization. In Off Balance, he weaves a compelling narrative that details the failings of...
No Freedom without Regulation
The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Almost everyone who follows politics or economics agrees on one thing: more regulation means less freedom. Joseph William Singer, one of the world’s most respected experts on property law, explains why this understanding of regulation is simply wrong. While analysts as ideologically divided as Alan...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Reagan’s Legacy in a World Transformed offers a timely retrospective on the fortieth president’s policies and impact on today’s world, from the influence of free market ideas on economic globalization, to the role of an assertive military in U.S. foreign policy, to reduction of nuclear arsenals in the interest of stability.
No Way Out?
Government Intervention and the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
In response to the ongoing financial crisis, the U.S. government has significantly expanded its role in economy, resulting in new legislation and both public and private policy overhauls. But these hasty efforts to buoy the economy may ultimately do more harm than good. In No Way Out?, Vincent R....
Preventing the Next Mortgage Crisis
The Meltdown, the Federal Response, and the Future of Housing in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The great U.S. mortgage crisis was a transformative event that will reverberate for decades across families, neighborhoods, and cities. After years of research on various aspects of the crisis, Dan Immergluck examines what went wrong, identifying the factors that created the fragile housing finance...
Land of the Fee
Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of the Fee, a not-insignificant portion of that debt comes in the form of predatory hidden fees attached to everyday transactions. Beginning in the 1980s,...
Corporatizing Canada
Making Business out of Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
“Corporatizing Canada is an impressive collection by activist scholars focusing on the commercialization by stealth of the public sector. Its accessible style is well integrated around three dimensions of corporatization that prioritize markets over social relations. A must-read for those interested...