economic policy

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Arctic thaw

climate change and the global race for energy resources
As climate change transforms this "icebound frontier into a land of opportunity," the Arctic has become "the scene of an ever-growing power struggle.".

The great recession

Explores the causes and effects of the 2008 U.S. economic recession and how various people in the government and the private sector have worked and are working to reverse its effects.

Crash!

how the economic boom & bust of the 1920s worked
2015
Demonstrates how the American economy emerges in patterns of "irrationally exuberant" highs which lead to painful lows, providing examples of the worst practices and circumstances, and discusses market mechanisms, popular pressures, and the workings or failings of regulation.

Cause & effect

Briefly explores the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the causes and effects of the end of the Cold War on both the United States and the Soviet Union.

Africa unchained

the blueprint for Africa's future
2005
Argues that in order for Africa to prosper, it must revert back to its centuries-old traditions of free enterprise, free markets, and free trade, urging Africa to improve and build upon its own indigenous institutions rather than following the economic models of foreign powers.

The Constitution and the New Deal

2000
Analyzes early-twentieth-century constitutional law and jurisprudence, focusing on the Supreme Court decisions related to the New Deal.

The new dealers

power politics in the age of Roosevelt
1994

American capitalism, 1945-2000

continuity and change from mass production to the information society
2003

As Texas goes--

how the Lone Star State hijacked the American agenda
2012
Proposes that Texas is the origin of the national agenda, and takes a humorous walk through the political landscape of Texas from states' rights to bank deregulation, and more that is incomprehensible to the non-Texan, and describes some of the colorful and influential politicians who originated in Texas.

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