mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Schiff, Peter [Schiff, Peter]

Hurting the Vulnerable Think about the way Social Security pays out benefits: once you retire, SSA determines your monthly benefit, and then pays that to you every year (adjusted for ...

mobi |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Stiglitz, Joseph E. [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

UNMASKING THE DEFICIT AGENDA: PRESERVING AND EXTENDING INEQUALITIES It might seem strange, in a country where tax rates at the top are already lower than they are in most of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Importance of Meaningful Work Nearly every study of happiness underscores the importance of meaningful work to personal well-being. Unemployment is the single largest factor in the public’s unhappiness and ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Collier, Paul [Collier, Paul]

Are There Investment Opportunities? Could the reason why investment in Africa is so modest simply be because it does not offer a high return? After all, investors vote with their ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-19 | Author:Steven Rattner

The head butting led Ron reluctantly to conclude that Fiat and the UAW would never reach agreement on their own. He summoned both parties to Washington and installed them in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Mark Steyn

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD The ruling class divides its subjects into Representation and Taxation categories. Favored groups are those that will expand the dependent class and, therefore, the dependent-administration class. ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Luigi Zingales

THE WRONG FIXES One natural political response to this state of affairs is protectionism. Given the economic fundamentals, there has been surprisingly little pressure for that so far. One possible ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Richard Heinberg

FIGURE 39. World Energy Use and GDP. Sources: US Energy Information Administration, International Monetary Fund. Another often-ignored factor skewing the energy-GDP relationship is outsourcing of production. In the 1950s, the ...

mobi |eng | 2004-09-08 | Author:Cavanagh, John & Mander, Jerry [Cavanagh, John]

196 CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING SCALE Changes in energy, transportation, and agriculture systems will make them more compatible with local economies and eliminate the wasteful resource uses that go with long-distance ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:Meltzer, Allan H.

Foreign and Military Commitments In the years just after World War II, the United States gradually accepted responsibility for maintaining world political stability and countering the perceived threat from the ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Sherry Glied, Peter C Smith [Sherry Glied, Peter C Smith]

CHAPTER 21 THE GLOBAL HEALTH WORKFORCE* TILL BÄRNIGHAUSEN AND DAVID E. BLOOM 21.1 INTRODUCTION “PEOPLE deliver health” (Joint Learning Initiative 2004). The health workforce, i.e. the people who are “primarily ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-24 | Author:Aaron Klein & Brenda J. Elliott [Klein, Aaron & Elliott, Brenda J.]

A WHITE HOUSE “CONSOLIDATION AUTHORITY” Yet another Obama initiative to expand White House control over U.S. trade and industry was reflected in a January 2011 announcement that Obama would call ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Aaron Klein & Brenda J. Elliott [Klein, Aaron & Elliott, Brenda J.]

A WHITE HOUSE “CONSOLIDATION AUTHORITY” Yet another Obama initiative to expand White House control over U.S. trade and industry was reflected in a January 2011 announcement that Obama would call ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-20 | Author:Alan Greenspan

THE TURNING POINT The correlation between growing economic activity and growing weight of real GDP apparently peaked in the late 1970s. In recent years, the conceptual contribution to economic activity ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Hedrick Smith [Smith, Hedrick]

“Sometimes People Don’t Realize They Are Training Their Own Replacement” Inside IBM, longtime employees watched for clues. Tom Midgley, a $75,000-a-year IT systems administrator at the large IBM operation in ...