The Past And Future Of Americas Economy
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Author |
: Robert D. Atkinson |
Publisher |
: Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 374 |
Release |
: 2004-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1781008833 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781781008836 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Past and Future of America's Economy by : Robert D. Atkinson
"Anyone interested in American history as well as the future contours of our economy will find Dr. Atkinson's analyses a guide to the past and a provocative challenge for the future. Economists, business leaders, scholars, and economic policymakers will find it a necessary addition to the literature on economic cycles and growth economics."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Edward Alden |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2017-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538109090 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538109093 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Failure to Adjust by : Edward Alden
*Updated edition with a new foreword on the Trump administration's trade policy* The vast benefits promised by the supporters of globalization, and by their own government, have never materialized for many Americans. In Failure to Adjust Edward Alden provides a compelling history of the last four decades of US economic and trade policies that have left too many Americans unable to adapt to or compete in the current global marketplace. He tells the story of what went wrong and how to correct the course. Originally published on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Alden’s book captured the zeitgeist that would propel Donald J. Trump to the presidency. In a new introduction to the paperback edition, Alden addresses the economic challenges now facing the Trump administration, and warns that economic disruption will continue to be among the most pressing issues facing the United States. If the failure to adjust continues, Alden predicts, the political disruptions of the future will be larger still.
Author |
: Robert J. Samuelson |
Publisher |
: Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2010-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812980042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812980042 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath 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 1980. But that is only half the story. The end of high inflation led to two decades of almost uninterrupted economic growth, rising stock prices and ever-increasing home values. Paradoxically, this prolonged prosperity triggered the economic and financial collapse of 2008 and 2009 by making Americans—from bank executives to ordinary homeowners—overconfident, complacent, and careless. The Great Inflation and its Aftermath, Samuelson contends, demonstrated that we have not yet escaped the boom-and-bust cycles common in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is a sobering tale essential for anyone who wants to understand today’s world.
Author |
: Robert J. Gordon |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 785 |
Release |
: 2017-08-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400888955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400888956 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise and Fall of American Growth by : Robert J. Gordon
How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth challenges the view that economic growth will continue unabated, and demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated. Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government, and that we must find new solutions. A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.
Author |
: Kent H. Hughes |
Publisher |
: Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 2005-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076002455538 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building the Next American Century by : Kent H. Hughes
Collaboration between the public and private sectors helped the U.S. economy recover from its last period of economic malaise, and similar collaboration is needed today, according to a key participant in the 1980s–1990s competitiveness movement. In Building the Next American Century, Kent H. Hughes describes that movement, beginning with the conditions that stimulated it: stagflation in the early 1970s, declines in manufactured exports, and challenges from German and Japanese manufacturers. The United States responded with monetary and fiscal reform, technological innovation, and formation of a culture of lifelong learning. Although a great deal of leadership came from government, a new sense of partnership with the private sector and its leaders was crucial. Hughes attributes much of the national prosperity of the late 1990s to contributions from the private sectors. Hughes argues that a twenty-first-century competitiveness strategy with a system-wide approach to innovation, learning, and global engagement can meet today's challenges, even in the demanding environment shaped by national security concerns after 9/11.
Author |
: Brian C. Johnson |
Publisher |
: Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2021-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781506470757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1506470750 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Fair Share by : Brian C. Johnson
America's economy does not currently live up to our country's core values. We are a nation founded on the ideals of coming together across differences to forge a common future. Yet over the past fifty years, our economy has been pulling us apart at unprecedented rates. By allowing top income earners and the wealthiest Americans to hoard wealth like almost never before, we belie what makes our country great. This is a threat to our well-being, our democracy, and our values. Brian C. Johnson combines accessible scholarship on wealth and income inequality in America with deeply personal accounts of six Americans of diverse backgrounds who are each wrestling with what it means to survive and thrive in this new economic world. In so doing, he offers a solution that is as visionary as it is practical. Dubbed the Citizen Dividend, this revolutionary model assumes that economic growth is built off of the wealth we have created together as a country, and together we all reap its benefits. In Our Fair Share, Johnson lays the groundwork for implementing this solution, detailing what the Citizen Dividend is, offering examples of similar existing models, outlining the benefits of such systems, tackling some of the common concerns that arise, and offering a path toward making it a reality. Ultimately, Our Fair Share calls on each of us to claim what is uniquely American, building a common future that embraces and celebrates our differences. This is our revolutionary inheritance. May we all benefit from it.
Author |
: Charles R. Hulten |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2019-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226567945 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022656794X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Education, Skills, and Technical Change by : Charles R. Hulten
Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can human capital accumulation in the United States keep pace with the evolving demands placed on it, and how can the workforce of tomorrow acquire the skills and competencies that are most in demand? Education, Skills, and Technical Change explores various facets of these questions and provides an overview of educational attainment in the United States and the channels through which labor force skills and education affect GDP growth. Contributors to this volume focus on a range of educational and training institutions and bring new data to bear on how we understand the role of college and vocational education and the size and nature of the skills gap. This work links a range of research areas—such as growth accounting, skill development, higher education, and immigration—and also examines how well students are being prepared for the current and future world of work.
Author |
: Petra Moser |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2021-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226779058 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022677905X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture by : Petra Moser
"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of water and arable land, the gradual increase in severe weather presents new challenges and imperatives for producing new, more resilient crops to feed a more crowded planet in the twenty-first century. Innovation has historically helped agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and chemical innovations have more than doubled agricultural output while barely changing input quantities. The ample investment behind these innovations was available because of a high rate of return: a 2007 paper found that the median ROI in agriculture was 45 percent between 1965 and 2005. This landscape has changed. Today many of the world's wealthier countries have scaled back their share of GDP devoted to agricultural R&D amid evidence of diminishing returns. Universities, which have historically been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly depend on funding from industry rather than government to fund their research. As Upton Sinclair wrote of the effects industry influences, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." In this volume of the NBER Conference Report series, editor Petra Moser offers an empirical, applied-economic framework to the different elements of agricultural R&D, particularly as they relate to the shift from public to private funding. Individual chapters examine the sources of agricultural knowledge and investigate challenges for measuring the returns to the adoption of new agricultural technologies, examine knowledge spillovers from universities to agricultural innovation, and explore interactions between university engagement and scientific productivity. Additional analysis of agricultural venture capital point to it as an emerging and future source of resource in this essential domain"--
Author |
: Richard McCormack |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0615288197 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780615288192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Manufacturing a Better Future for America by : Richard McCormack
Author |
: Henry Petroski |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2016-02-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781632863614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1632863618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Road Taken by : Henry Petroski
A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights--all crucial to our national and local infrastructure. A compelling work of history, The Road Taken is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, and Petroski reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in major infrastructure improvement. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity.