epub |eng | 2015-09-19 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz

GLOBALIZATION ISN’T JUST ABOUT PROFITS. IT’S ABOUT TAXES TOO.* THE WORLD LOOKED ON AGOG AS TIM COOK, THE HEAD OF Apple, said his company had paid all the taxes owed—seeming ...

epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Lemann

* * * In the 1980s it was becoming clear that the steady upward economic progress of the American middle class—which began with the New Deal and continued for almost ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Christopher Leonard

* * * For the first time since World War II, the economies of Japan, Europe, and the United States entered into a recession simultaneously. The impact on global oil ...

epub |eng | | Author:Samuel Stein

Fred Trump: The Rational Comprehensive Builder After working construction in high school and studying engineering at the Pratt Institute, Fred Trump started developing properties in Queens. He began with single-family ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-01 | Author:Aaron Bastani

Ageing in Britain: Austerity beyond Austerity In 2017, Britain’s Conservative Party lost their parliamentary majority. Seven weeks earlier when Theresa May called a snap general election, anything short of a ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-14 | Author:Peter Phillips

The Systemic Risk Council is a demonstration of the continuing evolution of TCC power elite policymaking efforts. Since the economic crisis of 2008, serious efforts to limit the possibility of ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Chris Arnade

* * * • • • Getting by in Cairo is tough. Walking around feels like surveying the damage long after a natural disaster. Entire neighborhoods are just grids of ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2003-05-11 | Author:Robert A. Dahl [Dahl, Robert A.]

From an American perspective, the result can be unbelievable. In stark contrast to Holland and Switzerland, Swedish cabinets have frequently been drawn from a party or coalition that has actually ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-06 | Author:Rachel Kleinfeld

The brutality of southern police, politicians, and ordinary citizens pushed the once nonviolent civil rights movement toward its fringes, just as repression tends to do everywhere. Among radicalizing college students, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cohen, Joseph Nathan;

Figure 5.2 Mean Household Spending, 1984–2014. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (2015). Areas of Rising Expenditures While the prices of consumer products generally fell in proportion to incomes, spending rose ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-13 | Author:Chuck Collins

4 Reducing the Concentration of Wealth Reversing inequality requires policies that raise the floor and level the playing field. But we cannot ignore the rigged rules that are exacerbating the ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2017-03-30 | Author:Peter Temin

Notes 1. Williams 2016. 2. Fountain and Schmidt 2016. 3. Apuzzo 2016; Davey 2016b. A federal study of the Baltimore police found the same kind of bias that the Ferguson ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-13 | Author:Richard Baldwin [Richard Baldwin]

Globalization: Less Controllable The pace of globalization has become much less controllable due to the nature of its driving forces: advanced information technology and better telecommunications. The crux of the ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:Bronstein, Jamie;

DELINEATING THE PROBLEM IN THE 1960s Prosperity during the 1950s was bounded by geography and economic sectors as well as by race. Agricultural mechanization meant that large numbers of farm ...

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 ...