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Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In SLOW DOWN, Kohei Saito delivers a bold and urgent call for a return to Marxism in order to stop climate change. Here he argues that by returning to a system of social ownership, we can restore abundance and focus on those activities that are essential for human life, effectively reversing climate change and saving the planet"--
Author
Publisher
Anthem Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period represented an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these countries developed, and it soon intervened to destroy these post-independence achievements. The two principal defeats and losses of territory to Israel in 1967...
4) Tombstone
Author
Publisher
Llewelyn Pritchard
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Tombstone[The British Government's Cover-Up]Port Hope Simpson, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada [Part 3/3]Series Title: Port Hope Simpson Mysteries [Vol 5c]Copyright 2012 by Llewelyn PritchardSmashwords EditionWhat was really going on behind the scenes?For the first time, declassified official British Government papers shine new light on amongst other things, Government mismanagement as knowledge hidden by an incongruous granite tombstone in Port...
Author
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted and less secure than it might be. How could ideas and policies that proved to be such an abject failure come to dominate the economic landscape? By critically examining the work of the most famous economists of the neoliberal...
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The authors focus on the major environmental constraints that limit U.S. food production without necessarily improving environmental quality. Each chapter documents a specific issue, discusses the regulatory response, and offers ideas for reform.--Provided by the publisher. --Provided by publisher.
7) Flat Tax
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This new and updated edition of The Flat Tax--called "the bible of the flat tax movement" by Forbes--explains what's wrong with our present tax system and offers a practical alternative. Hall and Rabushka set forth what many believe is the most fair, efficient, simple, and workable tax reform plan on the table: tax all income, once only, at a uniform rate of 19 percent.--Provided by the publisher. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumptions and values. We need a complete system transformation, a paradigm shift. This requires holistic and whole system thinking. It is a thoroughly hopeful book. The focus is on the possibility of a better world, a more fulfilling way of life, rather than what's wrong or what we have to give up. Could this...
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A contributors' "who's who" from the academic and policy communities explain and provide perspectives on John Taylor's revolutionary thinking about monetary policy. They explore some of the literature that Taylor inspired and help us understand how the new ways of thinking that he pioneered have influenced actual policy here and abroad.--Provided by the publisher. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This book examines the reasons for the unprecedented weak recovery following the recent US recession and explores the possibility that government economic policy is the problem. Drawing on empirical research that looks at issues from policy uncertainty to increased regulation, the volume offers a broad-based assessment of how government policies are slowing economic growth and provides a framework for understanding how those policies should change...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The size of government is arguably the most controversial discussion in United States politics, and this issue won't fade from prominence any time soon. There must surely be a tipping point beyond which more government taxing and spending harms the economy, but where is that point? In this accessible book, best-selling authors Jeff Madrick, Jon Bakija, Lane Kenworthy, and Peter Lindert try to answer whether our government can grow any larger and examine...
13) Falling Behind
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the...
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
An Agenda for Economic Reform in Korea looks at Korea's economic problems from the perspective of the American experience with economic reforms and sheds new light on the problems of economic reform facing nations all over the world. The authors examine such issues as corporate governance, social welfare, labor relations, and other pressing challenges--and suggest a new vision for the Korean economy.--Provided by the publisher. --Provided by publisher....
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This book introduces and analyzes a new and more predictable bankruptcy process designed specifically for large financial institutions--Chapter 14--to achieve greater financial stability and reduce the likelihood of bailouts. The contributors identify and compare the major differences in the Dodd-Frank Title II and the proposed new procedures and outline the reasons why Chapter 14 would be more effective in preventing both financial crises and bailouts.--Provided...
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In this concise volume, leading economist John B. Taylor offers empirical research to explain what caused the current financial crisis, what prolonged it, and what dramatically worsened it more than a year after it began. The evidence he presents strongly suggests that specific government actions and interventions are largely to blame and that any future government interventions must be based on a clearly stated diagnosis of the problem and a rationale...
17) On the Books
Author
Publisher
Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
On the Books is the firsthand comic strip account of the labor struggle at New York City's legendary Strand bookstore in the summer of 2012. Told by Greg Farrell--an employee of the store who interviewed numerous other staff members--the book examines the motives and actions of those involved, including the management, the staff, the union local, and the people of New York City. Through interstitial comic portraits, Farrell gives voice to his comrades,...
18) City Life
Author
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Remember when our cities and inner-cities weren't dominated by high-rise apartments? This book documents the changes that have come with the globalization of the Australian city since the 1970's. It tells the story of the major economic, social, cultural and demographic changes that have come with the opening up of Australia in those years, with a particular focus on the two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne. It also looks at how these changes...
Author
Publisher
River Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Pride, greed, and power have driven men to do the unthinkable-including selling out their nations and unsuspected citizens to the most corrupt and destructive "invisible" global leaders on Earth. But how did this happen on American soil? How did the downfall begin and who were the predators that the "land of the free and home of the brave" fell victim to? And is all hope lost? This book captures details of the last 200 years of American history that...
Author
Publisher
SAGE
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This one-volume reference presents the major conceptual approaches to the study of U.S. political parties and the national party system, describing the organization and behavior of U.S. political parties in thematic, narrative chapters that help undergraduate students better understand party origins, historical development, and current operations.Further, itprovides researchers with in-depth analysis of important subtopics and connections to other...
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