economic policy

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economic policy

The price of politics

2012
Documents Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress' efforts to restore the American economy since 2009. Details the policymaking efforts that defined this process and reveals why they failed to set the country back on track.

End this depression now!

2012
Identifies the factors that triggered the ongoing economic recession and discusses how these issues can be directly addressed in order to turn the economy around. Argues that political will is necessary to produce change and demonstrates how these priorities can be addressed as soon as possible.

Hard heads, soft hearts

tough-minded economics for a just society
1987
A discussion of economic policy in the United States, presenting examples of how and why policy goes wrong; arguing that politicians often reject sensible economic policies to follow a course they believe to be politically correct; and offering a nonpartisan vision for the future of the economy.

America

what went wrong?
1992
Articles and graphics describe economic conditions since the 1980s and their effect on the nation.

Economic sanity or collapse

including the Roman-Loebl approach to economics
1980
Analyzes the American economy and economic policies and proposes the Roman-Loebl economic theories as a means of solving current problems and preventing future ones.

To renew America

1995
Relates Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich's vision for America's future and his solutions to political, social, economic, and moral issues that currently face the U.S.

The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933

1998
Examines the political, social and economic aims of the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933 in Germany, and how their failure led to Nazism and World War II.

Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society

1998
Examines the underlying ideas and principal objectives of the original Great Society legislation proposed by President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s, and discusses why the reforms Johnson sought in the areas of civil rights, health care, poverty, education, urban life, and consumerism ultimately failed to achieve their purpose.

The man who sold the world

Ronald Reagan and the betrayal of Main Street America
2009
Discusses the legacy of Ronald Reagan's presidency, arguing that despite people's nostalgia for his time in office, he destroyed the American way of life by initiating unsustainable economic policies while pioneering the use of divisive issues to distract everyday citizens.

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