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Taking Sides. Clashing Views On Economic Issues

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selected, edited, and with introductions by Frank J. Bonello, Isobel LoboPublication Details
Book14th edMcGraw-Hill Higher Education2010Description
TAKING SIDES: WORLD POLITICS, 14/e presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) HC106.7 .T34 2010 AVAILABLE
A Failure Of Capitalism : The Crisis Of ‘08 And The Descent Into Depression

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Richard A. PosnerPublication Details
BookHarvard University Press2009Description
Posner analyzes the two basic remedial approaches to the crisis, which correspond to the two theories of the cause of the Great Depression: the monetarist?that the Federal Reserve Board allowed the money supply to shrink, thus failing to prevent a disastrous deflation?and the Keynesian?that the depression was the product of a credit binge in the 1920?s, a stock-market crash, and the ensuing downward spiral in economic activity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) HB3722 .P67 2009 DUE 11-23-09
The Man Who Sold The World : Ronald Reagan And The Betrayal Of Main Street America

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William KleinknechtPublication Details
BookNation Books2009Description
Since Ronald Reagan left office?and particularly after his death?his shadow has loomed large over American politics: Republicans and many Democrats have waxed nostalgic, extolling the Republican tradition he embodied, the optimism he espoused, and his abilities as a communicator. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E877.2 .K58 2009 DUE 12-06-09
The Case For Big Government

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Jeff MadrickPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2009Description
Political conservatives have long believed that the best government is a small government. In this perceptive and eye-opening book, Madrick proves that an engaged government–a big government of high taxes and wise regulations–is necessary for the social and economic answers that Americans desperately need in changing times. The Case for Big Government considers whether the government can adjust its current policies and set the country right. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) JK421 .M328 2009 AVAILABLE
Green Economics : An Introduction To Theory, Policy And Practice

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Molly Scott CatoPublication Details
BookEarthscan2009Description
Green economics offers an alternative to mainstream economics, which views society and the ecosystem as subsets of the wider, limitless global economy. This highly readable introduction explains the axioms of green economics including views on taxation, welfare, money, economic development and work through the work of its inspirational figures including Schumacher, Robertson and Douthwaite. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HC79.E5 C383 2009 AVAILABLE
Creating Market Socialism : How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class And Status In China

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Carolyn L. HsuPublication Details
BookDuke University Press2007Links
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By analyzing the shared stories about status and class, jobs and careers, aspirations and hopes that circulate among Harbiners from all walks of life, Hsu reveals the logic underlying the emerging stratification system. Harbiners collectively agreed that “intellectuals” (scientists, educators, and professionals) were the most respected within the new social order, because they contributed the most to Chinese society, whether that contribution was understood in terms of traditional morality, socialist service, or technological and economic progress. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HN733.5 .H825 2007 AVAILABLE
Nothing To Fear : FDR’s Inner Circle And The Hundred Days That Created Modern America

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Adam CohenPublication Details
BookPenguin Press2009Description
A revealing account of the critical first days of FDR?s presidency, during the worst moments of the Great Depression, when he and his inner circle launched the New Deal and presided over the birth of modern America Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history?the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR?s presidency, when he and his inner circle swept away the old order and reinvented the role of the federal government. Adam Cohen offers an illuminating group portrait of the five members of FDR?s inner circle who played the greatest roles in this unprecedented transformation, revealing in turn what their personal dynamics suggest about FDR?s leadership style. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E806 .C5925 2009 AVAILABLE
Rich And Poor In America : A Reference Handbook
Common Wealth : Economics For A Crowded Planet

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Jeffrey D. SachsPublication Details
BookPenguin Press2008Description
From one of the world’s greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty, a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don’t follow it The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life. We can achieve the four key goals of a global society: prosperity for all, the end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and environmental sustainability. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HD87 .S23 2008 AVAILABLE
Citizenship Papers

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Wendell BerryPublication Details
BookShoemaker & Hoard2003Links
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Citizenship Papers collects twenty new essays, from celebrations of exemplary lives to critiques of the American experience, including ?A Citizen?s Response [to the new National Security Strategy]??a ringing call of alarm to a nation standing on the brink of global catastrophe. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HD1761 .B468 2003 AVAILABLE
Post-Communist Romania : Coming To Terms With Transition

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edited by Duncan Light and David PhinnemorePublication Details
BookPalgrave2001Links
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This up-to-date collection analyzes Romania’s experiences of the transition form the harsh realities of the Ceausescu dictatorship to the uncertainties of the efforts to consolidate democracy and introduce a market economy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DR268 .P67 2001 AVAILABLE
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