Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Raw Deal
How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
"What's going to happen to my job?"
That's what an increasing number of anxious Americans are asking themselves.
The US workforce, which has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers...
This Changes Everything
Capitalism vs. The Climate
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
In short,...
by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.
The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and...
America the Possible
Manifesto for a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt...
The Economics of Enough
How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many...
The United Kingdom and the EU
Should Great Britain join the European Monetary Union or withdraw from the EU?
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,0, Saint Mary's University (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada), 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: My following paper will deal the article of Nigel Pain and Garry Young,...
Squeezed
Why Our Families Can't Afford America
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
One of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant—a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class’s fall while also offering solutions and hope.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich,...
Governing under Stress
The Implementation of Obama's Economic Stimulus Program
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The underappreciated but surprisingly successful implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) helped rescue the economy during the Great Recession and represented one of the most important achievements of the Obama presidency. It tested all levels of government with urgent time...
Greenspan's Fraud
How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
For two decades Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has held reign over economic policy, outlasting three presidents. His long tenure has had a profound effect on global economics and on individuals. In this hard-hitting exposé, international bestselling author Ravi Batra takes sharp aim at Greenspan's...
Brazil in the World
The International Relations of a South American Giant
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Brazil has suddenly become a country of interest to the West, playing a critical role in global economic talks at the G20 and WTO, brokering North-South relations through its new international economic geography, and stepping into regional and global security questions through its activities in Haiti,...
Limiting Resources
Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of governments, but in the 1980s privatization of such services spread and reliance on market mechanisms instead of governments became common in many parts...
The American Way of Poverty
How the Other Half Still Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review
Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It...
Who's the Fairest of Them All?
The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
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...
Double Standard
Social Policy in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In Double Standard, James W. Russell shows how and why different models of social and welfare policy developed in the United States and Europe. The fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect recent political developments that are having significant policy consequences, including...