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Author : David Dembo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Underbelly of the U.S. Economy written by David Dembo and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dembo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891843006
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Underbelly of the U. S. Economy written by David Dembo and published by . This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josh Bivens
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801461138
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Failure by Design written by Josh Bivens and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Failure by Design, the Economic Policy Institute’s Josh Bivens takes a step back from the acclaimed State of Working America series, building on its wealth of data to relate a compelling narrative of the U.S. economy’s struggle to emerge from the Great Recession of 2008. Bivens explains the causes and impact on working Americans of the most catastrophic economic policy failure since the 1920s. As outlined clearly here, economic growth since the late 1970s has been slow and inequitably distributed, largely as a result of poor policy choices. These choices only got worse in the 2000s, leading to an anemic economic expansion. What growth we did see in the economy was fueled by staggering increases in private-sector debt and a housing bubble that artificially inflated wealth by trillions of dollars. As had been predicted, the bursting of the housing bubble had disastrous consequences for the broader economy, spurring a financial crisis and a rise in joblessness that dwarfed those resulting from any recession since the Great Depression. The fallout from the Great Recession makes it near certain that there will be yet another lost decade of income growth for typical families, whose incomes had not been boosted by the previous decade’s sluggish and localized economic expansion. In its broad narrative of how the economy has failed to deliver for most Americans over much of the past three decades, Failure by Design also offers compelling graphic evidence on jobs, incomes, wages, and other measures of economic well-being most relevant to low- and middle-income workers. Josh Bivens tracks these trends carefully, giving a lesson in economic history that is readable yet rigorous in its analysis. Intended as both a stand-alone volume and a companion to the new State of Working America website that presents all of the data underlying this cogent analysis, Failure by Design will become required reading as a road map to the economic problems that confront working Americans.
Author : Jonathan Teller-elsberg
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595585699
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Field Guide to the U.S. Economy written by Jonathan Teller-elsberg and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensively revised and expanded with the most up-to-the-minute data, this new edition of the Field Guide to the U.S. Economy brings key economic issues to life, reflecting the collective wit and wisdom of the many progressive economists affiliated with the Center for Popular Economics. User-friendly and accessible, the book covers a wide range of subjects, including workers, women, people of color, government spending, welfare, education, health, the environment, macroeconomics, and the global economy, as well as brand-new material on the war in Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security, the prison-industrial complex, foreign aid, the environment, and pharmaceutical companies.
Author : Stuart Corbridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317610466
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Underbelly of the Indian Boom written by Stuart Corbridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out a living on less than two dollars a day. This book takes the reader to the underbelly of the Indian boom, an India that is not shining but is struggling to survive. From the Indo-Soviet Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, where an aristocracy of labour is increasingly being replaced by a more vulnerable contract labour force, we move to the banks of the Hoogly River. Here, Norwegian shipping companies exploit a precarious labour force that is as vulnerable to the vagaries of global finance and its crisis as the elderly, especially women and wage-workers, who live in the slums of Chennai. Also in Tamil Nadu, but this time in Tiruppur, we find that the garment and textile industries boom has nurtured new regimes of debt bondage among industrial workers. Though public concern about the vulnerability in which poor people find themselves has resulted in new nation-wide schemes framed in the language of rights, we find in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh that the practical workings of these schemes are dependent on the regional political systems in which they are enmeshed. We end in the belly of the Maoist-inspired Naxalite insurgency, denounced by the Indian government as the country’s greatest security challenge, where the poor are being mobilised to rise against the injustices of the Indian state. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.
Author : Mark A. Pisano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440853118
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Puzzle of the American Economy written by Mark A. Pisano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how sweeping demographic changes have resulted in the ineffectiveness of recent monetary and fiscal policies, and it identifies corrective actions that will start to reverse the trends of low economic growth and widespread government deficits. The field of demographics does not focus on the economic impacts and the funding issues resulting from demographic change. Similarly, economics does not take into account demographic changes. The omissions in both fields are negatively impacting the nation: income reductions caused by demographic changes that have not been accounted for are so large that current fiscal policies are not able to mitigate them. The Puzzle of the American Economy: How Changing Demographics Will Affect Our Future and Influence Our Politics exposes the factors that are undermining the nation's prospects for improving the rate of economic growth and keeping up with citizens' needs for government-provided services. Author Mark A. Pisano explains the hidden drag on the economy that has led to the ineffectiveness of recent monetary and fiscal policies, how uncertainty in economic policymaking is affecting America politically as well as at the individual household level, and why those who are adversely impacted are becoming politically disaffected. He also presents an agenda for corrective individual action. Readers will understand how the results of changes in demographics will last for decades and extend beyond the United States to many developed countries—particularly Japan and nations in Europe—as well as to some developing countries. The book will be of value to students studying macro and micro economics; those in public policy at all levels of government, public administration, and governmental budgeting; and anyone attempting to understand the current dilemma in economic policymaking and our disjointed political process.
Author : M. Perlman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230108237
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Pathology of the U.S. Economy Revisited written by M. Perlman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-01-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the deep contradictions plague market economies. It shows how the influence of these contradictions sometimes subsides, allowing the economy to perform relatively well. But in time, these contradictions accumulate and economy declines as if it suffers from some degenerative disease. The policies designed to rise above these contradictions often spawn even more severe contradictions. This book describes how these contradictions have affected the economy of the United States in the past and the dangers that the future poses. For example, policies to stimulate the economy eventually lead to stagnation. Policies to make hold down wages make business even more uncompetitive. It also analyzes the destructive consequences of the military, finance, and the Federal Reserve. Finally, it debunks the mythological promise of a New Economy.
Author : Paul Ekins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134955677
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Living Economy written by Paul Ekins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1986. Economics is in trouble. Its policy instruments are blunt, its experts disagree and its theories are in disarray in the face of global economics disorder: unprecedented levels of indebtedness, endemic inflation, high unemployment , deepening world poverty and gross environmental degradation. The Living Economy analyses conventional economic theory in the light of contemporary economic problems and finds its basic premises and assumptions flawed and its methodology suspect in several important respects. The Living Economy covers a variety of topics from agricultural methods and policy to health and world trade reform. Contributors come from a wide diversity of countries and continents including the USA, Europe, Africa, and the Far East. Each section is worth reading in its own right, for itself and, indeed, by itself. It is a book to be browsed through, reflected upon and enjoyed at one’s leisure. Together the contributions form a rich tapestry of insights and inspirations. They are in no way a simple repetition of Schumacher’s thoughts. Rather, they form an authentic part of a wider intellectual tradition of which he was also a part, albeit an early and important one.
Author : Dani Rodrik
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246426
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science written by Dani Rodrik and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A hugely valuable contribution. . . . In setting out a defence of the best in economics, Rodrik has also provided a goal for the discipline as a whole.” —Martin Sandbu, Financial Times In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat account of the discipline. Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world—but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right. Economics Rules argues that the discipline's much-derided mathematical models are its true strength. Models are the tools that make economics a science. Too often, however, economists mistake a model for the model that applies everywhere and at all times. In six chapters that trace his discipline from Adam Smith to present-day work on globalization, Rodrik shows how diverse situations call for different models. Each model tells a partial story about how the world works. These stories offer wide-ranging, and sometimes contradictory, lessons—just as children’s fables offer diverse morals. Whether the question concerns the rise of global inequality, the consequences of free trade, or the value of deficit spending, Rodrik explains how using the right models can deliver valuable new insights about social reality and public policy. Beyond the science, economics requires the craft to apply suitable models to the context. The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers challenged many economists' deepest assumptions about free markets. Rodrik reveals that economists' model toolkit is much richer than these free-market models. With pragmatic model selection, economists can develop successful antipoverty programs in Mexico, growth strategies in Africa, and intelligent remedies for domestic inequality. At once a forceful critique and defense of the discipline, Economics Rules charts a path toward a more humble but more effective science.
Author : Kevin J. Degnan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (428 download)
Download or read book America's Soft Underbelly written by Kevin J. Degnan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As economic markets fluctuate and globalization continues to stretch and stress U.S. corporations due to increased competition, security of corporate and sensitive U.S. technology is increasingly a matter of national security. Threats to sensitive U.S. technologies come not only from our enemies, but from our allies and free market competitors. U.S. industries are a priority for economic espionage and very often a priority target for our adversaries. Foreign companies and governments seek to acquire U.S. technology capabilities in order to achieve technological parity and a competitive advantage with which to enhance their military capabilities.1 As this national security threat continues to grow, the U.S. government should initiate appropriate counter espionage defense systems to protect U.S. interests and sensitive technologies. Potential solutions include expanding the National Counter Intelligence Executive (NCIX) Office, establishing a standing Interagency Economic Espionage Coordination Group (IEECG) or expanding the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Counterintelligence Domain Program (CDP) countering economic espionage by foreign competitors and adversaries.
Author : Ingrid H. Rima
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317466616
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Labor Markets in a Global Economy: A Macroeconomic Perspective written by Ingrid H. Rima and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory text on labour economics covers topics such as: the shift in America from a manufacturing-based economy to a service economy; the changes in the economic conditions in the US; the implications of NAFTA and GATT; and the labour markets.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment and Housing Subcommittee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Counting All the Jobless written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment and Housing Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas I. Palley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227608
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Plenty of Nothing written by Thomas I. Palley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business papers today are in a triumphant mood, buoyed by a conviction that the economic stagnation of the last quarter century has vanished in favor of a new age of robust growth. But if we are doing so well, many ask, why does it feel like we are working harder for less? Why, despite economic growth, does inequality between rich and poor keep rising? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Thomas Palley pulls together many threads of "new liberal" economic thought to offer detailed answers to these pressing questions. And he proposes a new economic model--structural Keynesianism--that he argues would return America to sustainable, fairly shared prosperity. The key, he writes, is to abandon the myth of a natural competitive economy, which has justified unleashing capital and attacking unions. This has resulted in an economy dominated by business. Palley's book, which began as a cover article for The Atlantic Monthly in 1996, challenges the economic orthodoxies of the political right and center, popularized by such economists as Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman. He marshals a powerful array of economic facts and arguments to show that the interests of working families have gradually been sacrificed to those of corporations. Expanding on traditional Keynesian economics, he argues that, although capitalism is the most productive system ever devised, it also tends to generate deep economic inequalities and encourage the pursuit of profit at the expense of all else. He challenges fatalists who say we can do nothing about this--that economic insecurity and stagnant wages are the inevitable results of irresistible globalization. Palley argues that capitalism comes in a range of forms and that government can and should shape it from a "mean street" system into a "main street" system through monetary, fiscal, trade, and regulatory policies that promote widespread prosperity. Plenty of Nothing offers a compelling alternative to conventional economic wisdom. The book is clearly and powerfully written and will provoke debate among economists and the general public about the most stubborn problems in the American economy.
Author : Dan Butts
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1553956958
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)
Download or read book How Corporations Hurt Us All written by Dan Butts and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent accounting and corporate scandals of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, K-Mart and McWane (producer of cast iron water and sewer pipes), which has killed 9 workers and injured 4600 more with impunity since 1995- and other greedy and lawless billion dollar behemoths- are just the tip of the iceberg relative to the serious and pervasive harm that corporations and greed are doing to people, communities, the earth and to our children's and grandchildren's future. How Corporations Hurt Us All examines many crises including how Big Oil, billion dollar weapons contractors, and unaccountable private firms like DynCorps are continuing dangerous and immoral Cold War policies by driving multiple wars and military operations; our collapsing corporate health care system that restricts free speech, stifles public debate, and manipulates public opinion to serve narrow corporate and political goals. Some of the world's largest multinational corporationsDExxonMobil(#1 oil company), Wal-Mart (#1 retailer), HCA (#1 hospital conglomerate), Citigroup (the world's #1 financial institution)- and other rogue operations are profiled in the book. The good news is that there are effective approaches to all of these interrelated, greed-driven crises. Even more hopeful are the corporate reform and global economic democracy movements representing thousands of dedicated citizens' groups and millions fo individuals throughout the world. Yet, what is ultimately necessary to reverse global economic, social, and environmental deterioration and eventual collapse, insure world peace and security, strength our weakened civil liberties, and fulfill our human potential, as the book explains, is forging a broad consensus on a new bottom line, or organizing principle, for business and society.
Author : Michael Marien
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780930242299
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Future Survey Annual 1985 written by Michael Marien and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Bowser
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803949942
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Impacts of Racism on White Americans written by Benjamin Bowser and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-03-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What motivates white racism? What effects does racism have on white Americans? The Second Edition of this provocative book reveals that racism remains a pervasive force in American society and that its effects on whites are still misunderstood. Combining the contributions of sociologists, historians and economists, this new edition contains updated chapters which take account of the developments in American society over the past 15 years. The editors expand on the recommendations they presented in the First Edition, demonstrating clearly the progress made and, more significantly, what remains to be achieved.
Author : David M. Haugen
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737763817
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 download)
Download or read book The Food Industry in Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation written by David M. Haugen and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative volume explores Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation through the lens of the food industry. Coverage includes: an examination of Schlosser's life as an investigative journalist; Schlosser's view of the food industry as demonstrated in his book; how investigative journalism can be viewed as literature; how Fast Food Nation has changed people's perspectives and actions; criticisms of Fast Food Nation and its message; and contemporary perspectives on the food industry with commentary on topics such as food regulations and movements.
