America in decline / Mike Sharpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharpe, M. E., 1928- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Economic conditions--20th century.

United States.

United States--Economic conditions--21st century.

United States--Economic policy--20th century.

United States--Economic policy--21st century.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

United States--Politics and government--21st century.

United States--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2012.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

""This collection gathers 91 essays that appeared in the pages of Challenge from 1973 through 2011.""

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Dates, Comments, and Presidents; Advice on Reading This Book; Planning Versus Stagflation, 1973-1979; To the Lilies of the Field Who Toil Not; Economics for Sybarites; Why Economists Disagree; The Galbraithian Revolution; Of Sticky Prices and Stinking Fish: The Wage-Price Spiral; Gunnar Myrdal's Challenge; Portrait in Oil; 2074; As You Like lt; The Praise of Folly; Inflation and Defunct Ideas: President Ford's Economic Summit; The Economic Consequences of Friedrich A. von Hayek

The Fear of PlanningThe Planning Bill; Reply to a Critic of Planning; Recovery Without Recovery; The Continued Existence of New York City Is Not Essential to National Security; Ten Rules for Full Employment Without Inflation; The Lost Papers of Jack Tanner; Do Economists Discover Economic Laws or Are They Passed by Congress?; How to Plan the Economy; Apologia Pro Vita Mea; The Last Chronicle of Barset; Advising Carter and Congress; The Backward Art of Giving Advice; JKG Versus the Angel; What Is an Incomes Policy All About?; Little Red Riding Hood; Searching for Homo sapiens

Why a Tax-Based Incomes Policy Won't WorkAnniversaries; Once More, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy; Is Inflation Inevitable in Post-Keynesian Capitalism?; When Britain Ran Out of Wood; Back to Laissez Faire, 1988-1999; Thirty Years of Challenge; The Speaker Speaks; The Rise and Fall of the New Deal; Ownership and Control; Labor's Future; What's Wrong with Economists?; The Good Society and Its Enemies; Adam Smith: Right and Wrong; Short Takes: Pleasant and Unpleasant Reviews; The Labor Movement and Black Ghettos: Two Reviews; The Short Twentieth Century; The Theft of Russia

Forty-Thousand Years of HistoryThe Past and Future of Socialism: The Communist Manifesto at 150; The Truman Show; World Development for the Few; Remembering Wassily Leontief, 1905-1999; Social Health and Social Illth; Further Down the Downward Spiral, 2005-2011; Robert Heilbroner, 1919-2005; The Biography of John Kenneth Galbraith; The Way Out of Iraq; One President, Five Disasters; New Orleans: A Modest Proposal; The Country Left the Man; Garbage; John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006; The Heavy Burden of Wealth; He's Got the Whole World in His Hands; Iraqonomics

How to Become a Friend of the Next PresidentAmerica's Suicide Pact with George W. Bush; Poor People; The New New Deal; A Sick Society; Hard Times; Racism and Polite Conversation; Super-Bubble; The Case for Government; Barack Obama and the Revolution of November 4, 2008; What Keynes Knew; Postscript on the G20 Summit: What Members Can Learn from the WPA; Recovery?; Camp Runamuck; Dissatisfaction Guaranteed: An Account of Two Bubbles; Obama's Failures; The Freefall That Isn't Free; Tea Party Politics; The Futility of Force; The Crisis of Capitalism; The Failure of Capitalism; Big Money

Violent Nation

Notes:

"First published 2012 by M.E. Sharpe"--t.p. verso.

"This collection gathers 91 essays that appeared in the p. of Challenge from 1973 through 2011."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-47734-0

1-315-70660-1

9781315706603

OCLC:

923711295