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2017.
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English
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Understanding wealth in the United States--who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it--is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world's great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of wealth since 1900.
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[2017]
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English
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An insiders look at how the SEC operates and how it impacts the overall economic health of the country; this book offers critical recommendations for policy changes that will create healthy; free-functioning markets and will help Americans better prepare for the inevitable next crisis. --
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©2012
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English
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"I would sleep better if I knew that Bernanke, Geithner, Bachus, Sen. Tim Johnson, Obama and Romney all kept dog-eared copies of Kevin Mellyn's Broken Markets on their nightstands. ... Mellyn's work is a fascinating, important, and eminently good read and should inform the debate on overhauling the U.S. and global financial regulatory systems and sustainable macro fiscal and monetary policy."--Eric Grover, in his review of Broken Markets in The American...
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©2010
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English
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Dean Baker, codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research recounts the strategies used by the country's top economic policymakers to conceal their failure to recognize the housing bubble or take steps to rein it in before it grew to unprecedented levels, resulting in the loss of millions of jobs, homes, and the life savings of tens of millions of people. He quashes dire warnings of looming rampant inflation and spiraling debt with solid...
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©2014
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English
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Our government debt is rising every day. Our population is shifting as more people retire and fewer are able to find work. This title helps you learn: how reckless spending by Congress has created a debt trap; and how Obamacare will negatively affect health care costs and our economy.
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2020
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English
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American opportunity is not dead. Bestselling author and entrepreneur John Hope Bryant outlines the mindset and practices that will allow us to achieve the American Dream, no matter what our current circumstances are. Facing a challenging economy, too many Americans despair of improving their lives. But John Hope Bryant insists that America is still the Land of Opportunity. Up from Nothing revives the forgotten story of the American Dream. It's about...
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©2007
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English
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By the bestselling author and XM and Sirius Satellite radio host heard on more than eighty radio stations coast to coast seven days a week. Reveals how the middle class, nurtured as the backbone of democracy by our Founding Fathers, is being undermined by so-called conservatives. Shows how we can reverse the erosion of the middle class and restore the egalitarian vision of the Founders. This expanded edition has a new chapter on immigration and a...
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"Upper Hand is designed to provide and expand options to an innovation alternative: one where marginalized communities aren't left behind as technology furthers its influence on society and deeply impacts and shapes our quality of life and economic/educational opportunities. Upper Hand helps us think about how we strategically shape the next decade of our lives and our communities as automation, robots, and the narrowing world of technology greatly...
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It may be hard to believe in an era of Wal-Mart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline, says Gerald Davis. The number of American companies listed on the stock market dropped by more than half between 1997 and 2012. In recent years, some of the most storied corporations have gone bankrupt (General Motors, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak) or disappeared entirely (Bethlehem Steel, Lehman Brothers, Borders, Circuit City)....
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©2013
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English
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An accessible, thoroughly engaging look at how the economy really works and its role in your everyday life. Like a patient, good-natured tutor, Greg, one of today's most respected economics journalists, walks you through everything you need to know about how the economy works. Short on technical jargon and long on clear, concise, plain-English explanations of important terms, concepts, events, historical figures and major players, this revised and...
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[2014]
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English
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NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book can safely be called prophetic in showing how problems ranging from loneliness, endless working hours, and family conflict to rising...
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2022.
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English
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"This volume on the political and social economy of financialization in the US focuses on the unexpected consequences of the rise of finance for the American macroeconomy, the financialization of household inequality, and the hollowing out of nonfinancial business enterprises. A historical-institutional balance-sheet approach to long term trends and recent changes reveals serious anomalies and provisos for critical, heterodox, and mainstream economic...
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2014.
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English
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"This book addresses the economic history and future of small cities and towns across the country, as they have and will continue to see dramatic shifts in the roles they play in the extant larger economies. The book addresses the difficult questions asked by these communities as they face an uncertain future. Can the small cities and towns of this country survive and, if so, what economic roles can they play? Must they return to the days of being...
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©2005
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English
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Drive through just about any low-income neighborhood and you're sure to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns, and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We're awash in "alternative financial services" directed at the poor and those with credit problems. Howard Karger describes this world as an economic Wild West, where just about any financial scheme that's not patently illegal...
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1999, ©2000
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English
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Reveals the profound impact of the global corporate economy on our daily lives; details 75 immediate and long-term Action Steps for empowering ourselves both individually and as a society. Offers specific tips, ideas, and resources on how to pare down our lives and open up our time. This book provides questions for reflection that help readers to think in new ways about what matters most to them. Corporate structures, products, and processes permeate...
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©2011
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English
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"The Occupy Wall Street Movement named the core issue of our time: the overwhelming power of Wall Street and large corporations--something the political establishment and most media have long ignored. Over the past few decades, wealth and power have been redistributed from the 99% to the 1%. But the movement goes far beyond this critique; it is changing everything--the way people view themselves and the world, the kind of society they believe is possible,...
20) The captured economy: how the powerful enrich themselves, slow down growth, and increase inequality
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For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. Yet economists have long taught that there is a tradeoff between equity and efficiency-that is, between making a bigger pie and dividing it more fairly. That is why our current predicament is so puzzling: today, we are faced with both a stagnating economy and sky-high inequality. In The Captured Economy , Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor...
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