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English
Description
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor.
Author
Publisher
G.P.O
Pub. Date
1950-
Edition
[Dept. edition].
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Represents the annual report of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Appendix B contains historical tables (from 1959 or earlier) on aspects of income (national, personal, and corporate), production, prices, employment, investment, taxes and transfers, and money and finance.
Author
Language
English
Description
Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
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English
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Designed to answer such key questions as: How has the U.S. Constitution shaped the economy of the United States? What were the consequences of Prohibition on consumers' behavior? This title presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more.
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Language
English
Description
A New York Times bestseller
America's unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world's greatest consumer economy. It was innovative and dynamic; it eclipsed old imperial systems and colonial archetypes. It gave rise to a dream: that if you worked hard and followed the rules you would prosper...
America's unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world's greatest consumer economy. It was innovative and dynamic; it eclipsed old imperial systems and colonial archetypes. It gave rise to a dream: that if you worked hard and followed the rules you would prosper...
Author
Language
English
Description
Blending personal accounts with data, Alissa Quart exposes the overwhelming economic, emotional, and social hardships faced by U.S. middle class families. Among the problems affecting them (including highly educated professionals who theoretically should be more economically secure), are gender bias, pregnancy/motherhood discrimination, disdain for care workers, exorbitant housing prices, health insurance and day-care costs, excessive student debt,...
Author
Publisher
BASIC Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Fifth edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 689 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A presentation of economics in plain, straightforward language, without the jargon, graphs, or equations that dominate most other economic writings. This book is aimed at people with no previous study of the subject, namely the general public and beginning students in economics. Basic Economics illustrates economic principles with vivid examples from countries around the world, to make those principles memorable in a way that technical jargon or mathematical...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
The history of the United States is the history of capitalism. The colonies began when property and trade were still new concepts in Europe and the country relied on the exploitation of human labor--first of Indigenous and enslaved peoples, and then of all workers--to grow the economy. Each era of exploitation was met with a violent response, until the political infrastructure turned to the divide-and-conquer plan that defines our modern era. Levy...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success."--Provided by the publisher.
With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine the lessons of the Israel's adversity-driven culture, which flattens hierarchy and elevates informality--all backed up by government policies focused on innovation.
18) The economic benefits of the U.S. Department of Energy for the state of Tennessee: fiscal year 1999
Author
Publisher
University of Tennessee
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
v, 43 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
20) Alabama
Author
Publisher
Brown Printing Co
Pub. Date
[1911]
Physical Desc
166 pages : front., illustrations, plates, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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