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  • Global Backlash

    Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy

    by Academic Consortium on International Trade, Dean Acheson, Action Canada Network, Alliance for Responsible Trade, Kofi Annan, Bama Athreya, Maude Barlow, Walden Bello, Patrick J. Buchanan, Gary Burtless, John Cavanagh, Suzanne Charle, Frank Church, Citizens Trade Campaign, Terry Collingsworth, Joseph Collins, Lance Compa, Michael Conroy, Maria Lorena Cook, Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y de la Vida, Alan Durning, Rose Benz Ericson, Forest Stewardship Council, Homero Fuentes, Jacques B. Gelinas, Steven Gorelick, Angela Hale, Pharis Harvey, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Zahara Heckscher, Hemispheric Social Alliance, Rohini Hensman, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, International Forum on Globalization, Jubilee South, Martin Khor, Francis Moore Lappe, Robert Z. Lawrence, Levi Strauss & Co, Jerome Levinson, Robert E. Litan, Subcomandante Marcos, Iqbal Masih, Allan H. Meltzer, Todd Merrifield, Mexican Action Network on Free Trade, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, Jeremy Rifkin, Walter Rodney, Robin Round, Scholars Against Sweatshop Labor, Robert J. Shapiro, Dennis Smith, John J. Sweeney, Wada Taw-il, Blair Underwood, United Nations General Assembly, United States of America, Mark Weisbrot ...
    Series series New Millennium Books in International Studies
    Global Backlash is the first book to move beyond the monolithic portrayal of the globalization protests that have escalated since Seattle and are not likely to abate soon. With trenchant analysis and dozens of primary documents from a variety of popular and uncommon sources, Robin Broad explores proposals and initiatives coming from the backlash to answer the question, 'But what do they want?' A ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Can America Afford to Grow Old?

    Paying for Social Security

    by Gary Burtless, Barry P. Bosworth, Henry J. Aaron ...
    Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of coping with the shortfall of available money for the aging American population. ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Closing the Deficit

    How Much Can Later Retirement Help?

    Edited by Gary Burtless, Henry J. Aaron ...
    As the average age of the population continues to rise in industrialized nations, the fiscal impacts of aging demand ever-closer attention. Closing the Deficit examines one oft-discussed approach to the issue-encouraging people to work longer than they now do.Workers would spend more years paying taxes and fewer years drawing pension and health benefits. But how much difference to spending and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Does Money Matter?

    The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Adult Success

    Edited by Gary Burtless ...
    Many believe that American education can only be improved with a sizable infusion of new resources into the nation's schools. Others find little evidence that large increases in spending lead to improvements in educational performance. Do additional school resources actually make any difference?The evidence on this question offers a striking paradox. Many analysts have found that extra school ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Growth with Equity

    Economic Policymaking for the Next Century

    by Gary Burtless, Martin Neil Baily, Robert E. Litan ...
    For nearly two decades the U.S. economy has been plagued by two disturbing economic trends: the slowdown in the growth rates of productivity and average real wages and the increase in wage and income inequality. The federal budget is in chronic deficit. Imports have far exceeded exports for more than a decade. American competitiveness has been a source of concern for even longer. Many Americans ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Work, Health, and Income Among the Elderly

    Edited by Gary Burtless ...
    This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as the general reader, across a broad range of subjects including Archaeology, Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • Understanding Government Finance

    by Brian Romanchuk ...
    The government budget is not like a household budget. This report introduces the financial operations used by a central government with a free-floating currency, and explains how they differ from that of a household or corporation. The focus is on what constraints such a government faces, and explains why such governments only face a limited risk of involuntary default.It introduces a simplified ... Read more

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  • Getting Off Track

    How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis

    by John B. Taylor ...
    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 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myth and Measurement

    The New Economics of the Minimum Wage - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

    by David Card, David Card, Alan B. Krueger, Alan B. Krueger ...
    From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wageDavid Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Insurance and Behavioral Economics

    Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry

    by Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark V. Pauly, Stacey McMorrow ...
    This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry decision makers involved in selling, buying and regulation. It compares their actions to those predicted by benchmark models of choice derived from classical economic theory. Where actual choices stray from predictions, the behavior is considered to be anomalous. Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark Pauly and Stacey McMorrow ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Gold Cartel

    Government Intervention on Gold, the Mega Bubble in Paper, and What This Means for Your Future

    by D. Speck ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The Gold Cartel is an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of the world market for gold, how it works, and what influences gold price. But it also lends insight into something more disturbing – the organized intervention in the gold markets by Central Banks. ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Rethinking Housing Bubbles

    The Role of Household and Bank Balance Sheets in Modeling Economic Cycles

    by Steven D. Gjerstad, Vernon L. Smith ...
    In this highly original piece of work, Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith analyze the role of housing and its associated mortgage financing as a key element of economic cycles. The authors combine data from both laboratory and real markets to provide insight into the bubble propensity of real-world economic actors and use novel historical analysis on the Great Recession, the ... Read more

    $70.59 USD