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2022.
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"Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Smith is one of the most influential icons of economic thought in America. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and weaponized Smith's ideas, revealing how his popular image as a champion of American-style capitalism...
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In The Real Crash, Schiff argues that America is enjoying a government-inflated bubble, one that reality will explode with disastrous consequences for the economy for each of us. Schiff demonstrates how the infusion of billions of dollars of stimulus money has only dug a deeper hole.
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[2013]
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"In [this book], you'll learn how to use your personal Obama defense shield (as designed by Root) to protect yourself and your family, how you can create a precious metals defense system to preserve your assets, how you must educate your children to prepare them for the Depression to come, [and] how to protect your family and turn your home into a fortress in Obama's second term"--Dust jacket flap.
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[2022]
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"A compelling alternative view of the relationship between our politics and our economy. Throughout America, structural problems are getting worse. Economic inequality is near Gilded Age heights, the healthcare system is a mess, and the climate crisis continues to grow. Yet most ambitious policy proposals that might fix these calamities are dismissed as wastefully expensive by default. From the kitchen table to Congress, debates are punctuated with...
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c2011
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The noise from both Washington and the media is deafening, the deeds of our lawmakers alarming. America needs a break from the posturing and the politicking. We need information: how we got here and where we are headed. Catherine Crier, one of the most respected figures in television journalism, presents an incisive, unbiased analysis of America's political crisis-delivering a message we cannot afford to ignore.America must move beyond political parties...
68) Economic systems
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c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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This informative yet approachable title gives students a clear understanding of Economic Systems and encourages them to take part in the Economy in Action! With plenty of kid-friendly examples, this book explains traditional, free market, managed, and mixed economic systems and discusses how they answer key questions. How can a society best use its available resources to produce goods and services, and how can it effectively allocate and distribute...
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2018.
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"The Lone Star State has a conservative history to be proud of, and proud it is. Now, with the influx of businesses and families relocating to the state from across the country, the political conversation has shifted drastically. In a historically red state, there are now far more Democratic minds with liberal ideology trying to swing the state blue. But Texas has reached its current point of success by maintaining conservative free-market policies,...
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2007.
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Classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. The author was a cowinner of the Nobel Memoiral Prize in economics in 1974and was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertariansim in the twentieth century.
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[2013]
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The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you're not at the top, you're at the bottom. The global labor market is changing radically thanks to growth at the high end-- and the low. About three quarters of the jobs created in the United States since the great recession pay only a bit more than minimum wage. Still, the United States has more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever, and we...
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[2019]
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As inequality and social justice become larger parts of the daily news cycle, it's more important than ever for students to learn about inequality. With this book, students will learn how to spot inequality in their communities and discover what exactly to do when they see it. Readers are provided with real-life examples of people who noticed inequality in their communities and decided to set things right. With accessible, easy-to-grasp language,...
75) Capitalist punishment: how Wall Street is using your money to create a country you didn't vote for
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2023.
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Three Wall Street firms have quietly amassed more money than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie, and John Rockefeller combined. But the money isn’t even theirs. These asset managers have accumulated all their power through “passive funds,” as most investors no longer believe anyone can reliably pick stocks. Yet the Big Three have decided that they can reliably pick the right social policies instead.
As entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy reveals,...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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"Families today are squeezed on every side--from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular working hours"--Book jacket.
Attaining the standard of living our parents managed has become impossible. Quart examines the lives of many middle-class Americans who can now barely afford to raise children, and shows how our country has failed its families. She offers real solutions...
79) A simple government: twelve things we really need from Washington (and a trillion that we don't)
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2011.
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Armed with little money but a lot of common sense, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee surprised the nation by coming in second during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. He connected with millions of voters by calling for a smaller, simpler government that would get our of the way when appropriate. Huckabee continues to be the voice of commonsense conservatism through his television talk show, his radio commentaries, and his lectures....
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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The U.S. senator and former presidential candidate offers a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and presents a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.