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  • The Future of Social Security Policy

    Women, Work and A Citizens Basic Income

    by Ailsa McKay ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen’s basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality, universality and unconditionality which would ensure a minimum income guaranteed for all members of society. Implementing a CBI, would consequently entail radical ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz ...
    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 benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The High-Beta Rich

    How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust

    by Robert Frank ...
    The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent (1%) broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the American income charts - models of financial propriety - suddenly set off on a wild ride of economic binges.Not only do they control more than a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Next Hundred Million

    America in 2050

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Economics of Innocent Fraud

    Truth For Our Time

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors; it is a scathing critique of matters as they stand today.Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between reality and ... Read more

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  • Class Matters

    by The New York Times ...
    The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America—and its implications for the way we live our livesWe Americans have long thought of ourselves as unburdened by class distinctions. We have no hereditary aristocracy or landed gentry, and even the poorest among us feel that they can become rich through education, hard work, or sheer gumption. And yet social class remains a powerful ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economic Indicators

    Manage Your Investments with an Eye on the Key Factors Affecting Today’s Market

    by R. Rogers ...
    An expert helps readers understand what the big economic picture means for their money—and how to respond.Today's investors must play an active role in managing their money. This guide introduces the leading U.S. economic indicators and shows how to use them to make better investment decisions.Indicators covered include: national output; employment; consumer reports; housing and construction; and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Crash Bang Wallop

    The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World

    by Iain Martin ...
    Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely reshaped by Big Bang, and it had an extraordinary impact on politics, on style, on technology, on the ... Read more

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  • The Middle Class Comeback: Women, Millennials, and Technology Leading the Way

    by Munir Moon ...
    In a time when the one-percenters seem to have it all, author Munir Moon builds a case for the average Joe in his eye-opening new book, The Middle Class Comeback. So take heart and take control of your fears with Moon's informative--and ultimately inspiring--look at the middle class.Moon, a former financial-industry executive and current business owner, uses his years of expertise to paint a ... Read more

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  • Offshoring of American Jobs

    What Response from U.S. Economic Policy?

    by Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Alan S. Blinder ...
    Series series Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy at Harvard University
    Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the “offshoring” of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.It is no surprise that many fearful American workers see the call center operator in Bangalore or the factory worker in Guangzhou as a threat to their jobs. The emergence of China and India (along with other, smaller developing countries) as economic powers has ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Exit Strategy: Ending the Tyranny of Finance

    by Giulio Tremonti ...
    From Italy’s former minister of economy and finance, a provocative and galvanizing jeremiad on the Euro crisis and the global economic status quo. As Europe’s debt crisis persists and the aftershocks of the 2008 collapse hinder recovery across the globe, Giulio Tremonti underscores the dangers that unchecked financial markets pose to democracy, and explains what nations must do to protect their ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Great Equalizer

    How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone

    by David Smick ...
    The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick-hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller The World Is Curved-argues that the experts are wrong.In recent decades, a Corporate Capitalism of top down ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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