Economic Policy category: 3057 books
Us National Debt Recovery
A Program Proposal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The United States of America owes trillions of dollars to creditors, and the amount is increasing every day. If the country continues on its current track, it could result in dire consequences for the government and its citizens. But a realistic solution could liberate us from the national debt crisis.
Elias...
Money Well Spent?
The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration's handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama's audacity of hope” met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the ''American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009''-the largest...
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental work
US Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade.” It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and...
After the Fall
The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
A fascinating up-to-date look at the roots of our financial crisis from the New York Times bestselling author Kevin Phillips Kevin Phillips’s Bad Money revealed the roots of the financial malignance that led to 2008’s devastating market meltdown, explaining how the financial sector hijacked the...
Survival of the Richest
How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
"Survival of the Richest is a fantastically well-researched book, and should join Robert Reich and Barbara Ehrenreich on the must-read bookshelf on wealth disparity."—Dr. Naomi Wolf, CEO, Dailyclout.io
A fresh look at economic inequality in America
Survival of the Richest scrutinizes how...
Wall Street's Think Tank
The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
The Council on Foreign Relations is the most influential foreign-policy think tank in the United States, claiming among its members a high percentage of government officials, media figures, and establishment elite. For decades it kept a low profile even while it shaped policy, advised presidents,...
by Donald R. Miklich
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This essay is a non-economists’ (there’s not a bit of math in it) inquiry into the US employment losses which have been happening for about a half century. Businesses have been reducing workers and their pay in order to increase shareholder profits. Many ways have been used to do this, but more...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The first Great Depression. The Second Great Depression.
The Great Depression was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in the late 1920s and lasting through most of the 1930s.
The Second Great Depression. 2007- 2017
Most of the logic used to support...
When the Money Runs Out
The End of Western Affluence
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is a historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King warns,...
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.
Yanis...
by David L. Boren
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
A powerful wake-up call to all Americans
With only 6 percent of the world’s population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? The answer, David Boren tells us in A Letter to America, depends on asking ourselves tough questions. A powerful wake-up call to Americans, A...
Leaving Liberty?
Essays on Politics and Free-Market Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Politics can impact the marketplace in a big way.
In Leaving Liberty?, author Martin Mazorra presents a collection of essays that explores the important relationship between politics and economics.
Delivered in a daily devotional format of thirty-one essays, Leaving Liberty? provides...
by Peter Ferrara
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Most people do not know that already enacted in current law for 2013 are increases in the top tax rates of virtually every major federal tax. That is because the tax increases of Obamacare become effective that year, and the Bush tax cuts expire, which Obama has refused to renew for the nation’s small...
Forgotten Vanguard
Informal Diplomacy and the Rise of United States-China Trade, 1972–1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The trading relationship between the United States and China, though now robust, was a recent and hardly inevitable development. Political animosity stemming from the Korean War and America's subsequent strategic embargo of China broke off economic and cultural ties. Following two decades of China's...