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Author
Publisher
FT Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiv, 215 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Donlan's defense of free market capitalism is especially timely today given all the pressures to regulate and stifle it. The anti-globalization movement wants more trade protectionism and less immigration. The global credit crisis is putting pressure on governments to bail out irresponsible lenders and borrowers at taxpayers' expense. Instead, Donlan convincingly and clearly explains why we would all prosper more by doing all we can to make...
Author
Series
Publisher
FTPress Delivers
Pub. Date
Ã2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([22] pages).
Language
English
Description
"This Element is an excerpt from Seeds of destruction: why the path to economic ruin runs through Washington, and how to reclaim American prosperity (ISBN: 9780137027736) by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro. After the failures of Obama and Congress: a better, bipartisan route back to prosperity."--Resource description page.
Author
Series
Publisher
[FTPress Delivers]
Pub. Date
[Ã2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([19] pages).
Language
English
Description
This Element is an excerpt from Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity (9780137027736) by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats. Why the 2009 fiscal stimulus went so wrong--and what America needs to do instead. President Obama inherited a very difficult economic situation. Unemployment had climbed to a 16-year high, and economic recovery...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Picador edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced and reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics but rather the larger failure of a democratically bankrupt political system. The solution he offers: discover democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 272 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Akerlof and Shiller argue that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception. Based on the intuitive idea that markets both give and take away, they show how phishing affects everyone, in almost every walk of life. We spend our money up to the limit, and then worry about how to pay the next month's bills....
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 407 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Glenn Beck arms readers to the teeth with information necessary to debunk the socialist arguments that have once again become popular, and proves that the free market is the only way to go"--
17) Culture and prosperity: the truth about markets : why some nations are rich but most remain poor
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
[U.S. edition].
Physical Desc
viii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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