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“steven m sheffrin”

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  • Tax Fairness and Folk Justice

    by Steven M. Sheffrin ...
    Why have Americans severely limited the estate and gift tax - ostensibly targeted at only the very wealthy - but greatly expanded the subsidies to low-wage workers through the Earned Income Tax Credit, now the single largest poverty program in the country? Why do people hate the property tax so much, yet seemingly revolt against it only during periods of economic change? Why are some groups of ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Markets and Majorities

    by Steven M. Sheffrin ...
    America's government intervenes in almost every aspect of its citizens' daily lives. From the air we breathe, to our health, wealth, and security, Americans wade through a vast political ocean. Unfortunately, we do so blindly; few Americans understand how or why our government regulates the market mechanisms that surround us. In Markets and Majorities, Steven Sheffrin addresses essential yet ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Aftershock

    The Next Economy and America's Future

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: ... Read more

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  • Fault Lines

    How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (New in Paper)

    by Raghuram G. Rajan ...
    Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more ... Read more

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  • Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

    by Raghuram G. Rajan ...
    Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines , Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Winner Take All

    China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance -- their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life -- few people who are not economists or traders know how commodity markets work. Almost every day, newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of impending doom -- shortages of arable land, clashes ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Stiglitz Report

    Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Systems in the Wake of the Global Crisis

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    The fact that our global economy is broken may be widely accepted, but what precisely needs to be fixed has become the subject of enormous controversy. In 2008, the president of the United Nations General Assembly convened an international panel, chaired by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and including twenty leading international experts on the international monetary system, to ... Read more

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  • Cracking Economics

    by Tejvan Pettinger ...
    Crack the world of money and understand the economic theory that has shaped nations and influenced the way you live now.From Keynesian models to how inflation affects interest rates, Cracking Economics will make the seemingly complex world of global finance easily understood.Subjects covered include:-Macro- and micro-economics-Inflation-Recession-Economic forecasting-How stock markets work ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Roaring Nineties

    A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    How one of the greatest economic expansions in history sowed the seeds of its own collapse.With his best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz showed how a misplaced faith in free-market ideology led to many of the recent problems suffered by the developing nations. Here he turns the same light on the United States.The Roaring Nineties offers not only an insider's ... Read more

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  • The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath

    The Past and Future of American Affluence

    by Robert J. Samuelson ...
    The Great Inflation in the 1960s and 1970s, notes award-winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson, played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life. The direct consequences included stagnation in living standards, a growing belief—both in America and abroad—that the great-power status of the United States was ending, and Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in ... Read more

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  • First Principles

    Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity

    by John B. Taylor ...
    Leading economist John B. Taylor’s straightforward plan to rebuild America’s economic future by returning to its founding principles.Mired in a crippling economic slump and hamstrung by partisan political debates, America faces substantial economic challenges, from widespread unemployment to the government’s ballooning debt. These assaults on our prosperity reflect the unintended consequences of ... Read more

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  • The Road from Ruin

    How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back on Top

    by Matthew Bishop, Michael Green ...
    We Have a World-Class Mess . . . Now What?Amid the carnage of bankruptcies, soaring unemployment, and millions of families losing their homes during the financial crisis of 2007–2009 lay the bloody corpse of a set of ideas that had underpinned the economics of the previous thirty years. A system that had been delivering unprecedented prosperity on a global scale suddenly teetered on the verge of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD