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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Robert J. Gordon
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Robert J. Gordon [Gordon, Robert J.]

Figure 11–9. U. S. Commerical Airline Passenger Fatalities Per 100 Billion Passenger-Miles, Seven Year Moving Average, 1940–2013. Sources: HSUS Df1120, Df1133, Df 1231, Df1236 before 1997, MIT Airline Data Project ...
( Category: Economic Conditions February 26,2017 )
Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff by Erin Arvedlund
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-07-31 | Author:Erin Arvedlund [Arvedlund, Erin]

The sudden increase in the popularity of hedge funds can be explained by a number of factors—many of them political. In part, Congress’s 1999 repeal of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall legislation, ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals February 25,2017 )
The Anatomy of Inequality by Per Molander
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Per Molander [Molander, Per]

7 LIBERALISM AND INEQUALITY The common task liberal thinkers have set themselves is the shaping of a good constitution that will regulate the relationship between individuals—and between individuals and the ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 25,2017 )
The World That Trade Created by Pomeranz Kenneth Topik Steven
epub |eng | | Author:Pomeranz, Kenneth,Topik, Steven

5.1 The Logic of an Immoral Trade America was created by immigrants. We have all been taught that their hard work and ingenuity carved civilization out of the wilderness. Where ...
( Category: Economic History February 24,2017 )
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Daina Ramey Berry
epub |eng | 2016-11-20 | Author:Daina Ramey Berry [Berry, Daina Ramey]

Commodification Data for Elderly Adults Using a sample of 12,244 appraisal and sale values for enslaved people aged forty and older, I found that the elderly and superannuated had low ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 11,2017 )
JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity by Lawrence Kudlow & Brian Domitrovic
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Lawrence Kudlow & Brian Domitrovic [Kudlow, Lawrence]

I think we have a chance. I know all the arguments against it, because I have heard them over and over again. . . . But we are going to ...
( Category: Economic Policy & Development January 21,2017 )
An Extraordinary Time by Marc Levinson
epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Marc Levinson

CHAPTER 11 Thatcher In the warm glow of memory, cherished by generations of conservative acolytes, the global ascendancy of the right brought an end to the economic crisis that had ...
( Category: History & Theory December 6,2016 )
Connectedness and Contagion by Scott Hal S.;
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Scott, Hal S.;

Notes 1. Committee on the Global Financial System, Asset encumbrance, financial reform and the demand for collateral assets, 49 CGFS Papers 1 (May 2013). 2. Id. 3. Eric Rosengren, Speech ...
( Category: Economic Policy December 3,2016 )
The Evolution of Money by David Orrell
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:David Orrell

It’s Alive In the preface to his Principles of Economics, the neoclassical economist Alfred Marshall wrote that “the Mecca of the economist lies in economic biology.” However, he did not ...
( Category: Economics September 30,2016 )
Karl Polanyi by Gareth Dale
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Gareth Dale

KARL’S CHOICE, ILONA’S TRIAL Polanyi had written The Great Transformation in the United States, and the prospect of developing his research program in that country was enticing. A particularly appropriate ...
( Category: History & Theory September 11,2016 )
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Deirdre N. McCloskey
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-20 | Author:Deirdre N. McCloskey [McCloskey, Deirdre N.]

42 Political Ideas Mattered for Equal Liberty and Dignity “One history of Western politics,” writes the political philosopher Mika LaVaque-Manty, citing Charles Taylor and Peter Berger (he could have cited ...
( Category: History & Theory August 23,2016 )
Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Jane Jacobs

TEN Why Backward Cities Need One Another The Shah of Iran wanted an economy like America’s, Japan’s and northern Europe’s. He thought he could have it if he had the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development August 20,2016 )
Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy by Bradford DeLong
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bradford DeLong [DeLong, Bradford]

The Long Age of Ike is a splendid example of America’s recurrent history of government using whatever means it can muster that fit the situation—changing laws and regulations, extending the ...
( Category: Economic Policy August 7,2016 )
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marcal
epub |eng | | Author:Katrine Marcal

CHAPTER TEN In which we see that you aren’t selfish just because you want more money Nancy Folbre, a feminist professor of economics, often tells this tale: Once there were ...
( Category: Theory July 18,2016 )
The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics by Sean Wilentz
epub |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Sean Wilentz [Wilentz, Sean]

FOR MANY YEARS, the literary scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been vigorously expanding and institutionalizing the study of African American literature and history, bringing to light forgotten but important ...
( Category: Political Advocacy July 4,2016 )

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