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Michael A. Bernstein is Professor of History and Associated Faculty Member in Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939, and coeditor of Understanding American Economic Decline.
The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public...
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China's transformation over the past four decades has been unprecedented. The vision of its leaders for the next three decades is unprecedented too, as China seeks to fashion an advanced economy without significant political and social liberalization.
Stephen Morgan provides a wide-ranging examination of China's remarkable economic history from the time of the great divergence to the present day. Alongside the familiar story of GDP growth, he considers...
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Horst Siebert is President Emeritus of the Kiel Institute for World Economics, Steven Muller Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, and Jelle Zijlstra Professorial Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He previously served as a member of the German government's Council of Economic Advisors for twelve years. He is the author of The World Economy, Economics of the Environment, and the author or editor of numerous other...
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D. P. O'Brien, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Durham, is the author or editor of many books, including J. R. McCulloch and Thomas Joplin and Classical Macroeconomics.
The Classical Economists Revisited conveys the extent, diversity, and richness of the literature of economics produced in the period extending from David Hume's Essays of 1752 to the final contributions of Fawcett and Cairnes in the 1870s. D. P. O'Brien thoroughly...
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Is Capitalism doomed; how long is its shelf-life? Can its promise of prosperity and the 'good life' be sustained? Have stories of its impending demise been exaggerated? If some soothsayers are to be believed it has been on a downward slippery slope at least since the financial crash over a decade ago, so that its days may well be numbered. This work analyses the place of the free market economy in modern society, distinguishes between neo-liberalism...
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"Winner of the Talcott Parsons Prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences" Albert O. Hirschman is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of many books, including Exit, Voice, and Loyalty and The Strategy of Economic Development. Robert H. Frank is Godwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Cornell University. He is the author of Luxury Fever (Princeton).
Why does society oscillate between...
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Leviathan is back
The threat of statism has reemerged in force. The federal government has radically expanded its power-through bailouts, "stimulus" packages, a trillion-dollar health-care plan, "jobs bills," massive expansions of the money supply, and much more. But such interventionism did not suddenly materialize with the recent economic collapse. The dangerous trends of government growth, debt increases, encroachments on individual liberty,...
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Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement--monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small . . . monumental,...
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"Winner of the 1992 Best Book Award of the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association"
Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient...
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Paul Osterman is Professor of Human Resources and Management at the Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market and Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy. He has cowritten and edited several other books and written numerous articles on topics such as labor market policy, job training programs, economic development, anti-poverty programs, and the organization...
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Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the coauthor, with Jerome Karabel, of the award-winning study The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985.
Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence...
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"Winner of the 2000 John Whitney Hall Book Prize, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies" William M. Tsutsui is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation.
Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices. Yet, as William Tsutsui argues, the origins and implications of "Japanese-style...
55) Telestar
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My book is a scientific description of business combined with psychology and ideas from reading the newspaper. My book also talks about Hollywood and relations between the sexes including Hollywood actresses. I also write about history. My favorite actress is Brooke Shields and most of my ideas come from her. I have known her 25 years and we are often involved. I have written Telestar to describe history of economics and finance with additional history...
56) Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century
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Corporations often move factories to areas where production costs, notably labor, taxes, and regulations, are sharply lower than in the original company hometowns. Not every company, however, followed this trend. One of America's most iconic firms, the Campbell Soup Company, was one such exception: it found ways to achieve low-cost production while staying in its original location, Camden, New Jersey, until 1990.The first in-depth history of the Campbell...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of George Packer's The Unwinding by Instaread Preview: The Unwinding by George Packer is an account of the decline of American institutions since 1978.The traditional pillars of American middle-class democracy-government, schools, churches, and the media-have eroded. The American Dream has persisted, but it is no longer attainable through adherence to traditional values like hard work, education, and determination. As the...
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Mark J. Roe is a professor at Columbia Law School.
In this major reinterpretation of the evolution of the American corporation, Mark Roe convincingly demonstrates that the ownership structure of large U.S. firms owes its distinctive character as much to politics as to economics and technology. His provocative examination addresses essential issues facing American businesses today as they compete in the new international marketplace. "Economic theory...
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The human heart of New York State's "Black Dirt" region is Pine Island, population 2,000, a hamlet in the town of Warwick in the South-Central section of Orange County, just 60 miles from New York City.
Here, citizens live on outcrops of limestone that rise out of the fertile soil, like islands in a lake - islands in what was indeed once a massive swamp left by melting glaciers 12,000 years ago. Most Pine Islanders are farmers or connected to farming,...
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"Excellent . . . I highly recommend this book." -RON PAUL
Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the economic meltdown that began in 2007-or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent future calamities?
Mainstream economics has no adequate answers for these pressing questions. To understand how we got here, and how we can ensure prosperity, we must turn to an alternative to...