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The U.S. senator and former presidential candidate offers a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and presents a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.
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Series
(Friedrich August),Works volume 2
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xi, 283 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. The author was a co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics in 1974 and was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertariansim in the twentieth century.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Outlines a deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world of classroom economics, clarifying assumptions and misleading teachings while sharing historical insights into how economism became a prevalent influence in the U.S.
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xix, 284 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"In The War on Normal People, Andrew Yang paints a dire portrait of the American economy. Rapidly advancing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation software are making millions of Americans' livelihoods irrelevant. The consequences of these trends are already being felt across our communities in the form of political unrest, drug use, and other social ills. The future looks dire-but is it unavoidable?"--Amazon.com.
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Renowned economist Jeff Faux explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slide. America's political and economic elite spent so long making such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue down the same road? The simple answer, that no one in charge wants to publicly acknowledge: because things are still pretty great for the people who run America....
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xviii, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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An international economic advisor shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty.
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Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 241 pages ; 24 cm
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After educating readers on the background of the issues affecting America today and examining political problems passed down from previous generations, Frey offers detailed, thoughtful proposals-- both practical and provocative --on how we can alter the way we govern ourselves and restructure our government in areas from education and voting rights to healthcare and defense-- all while staying true to the intentions of the Founding Fathers. Frey's...
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Publisher
Plume, published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three quarters of the jobs created here pay only marginally more than minimum wage. Why is there growth only at the top and the bottom? Renowned economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen explains that high earners are taking ever more advantage of machine intelligence and achieving ever-better results. Meanwhile, nearly...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxii, 359 pages ; 25 cm
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"Beginning in the 1970s, as deregulated capitalism regained the upper hand, elites began to dominate politics once again; policy reversals followed. The inequality and instability that ensued would eventually, in 2016, cause disillusioned voters to support far-right faux populism. Is today's poisonous alliance of reckless finance and ultranationalism inevitable? Or can we find the political will to make capitalism serve democracy, and not the other...
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Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Description
"It?s time for action. Americans are fed up with politics as usual. And they should be! In this book, I outline my vision to make America great again, including: how to fix our failing economy; how to reform health care so it is more efficient, cost-effective, and doesn?t alienate both doctors and patients; how to rebuild our military and start winning wars--instead of watching our enemies take over--while keeping our promises to our great veterans;...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
384 pages
Description
"The New York Times bestselling business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America's most mysterious institutions-the Federal Reserve-to show how its policies over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country'seconomic stability at risk"--
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm
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The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories-- why they're wrong, the harm they've done, and the theories that would vastly improve on them. Jeff Madrick-- former New York Times business columnist and now Harper's economics columnist-- mounts a comprehensive case against prevailing mainstream economic thinking, illustrating how it has damaged markets, infrastructure, and...
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Publisher
All Points Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vii, 290 pages ; 25 cm
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"For those who witnessed the global collapse of socialism, its resurrection in the twenty-first century comes as a surprise, even a shock. How can socialism work now when it has never worked before? In this pathbreaking book, bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza argues that the socialism advanced today by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar and Elizabeth Warren is very different from the socialism of Lenin, Mao and Castro....
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xxiv, 162 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. In a concise essay that combines practical insight with philosophical depth, Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xii, 335 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Predicts a worse crash if key economic changes cannot be made, arguing that American consumer habits are at the heart of today's problems and recommends that the nation declare bankruptcy and rebuild broken systems from scratch.
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