Editorial Reviews
The health care industry has undergone so much change since 1990 that the rules that apply to buying medical services for the past hundred years are useless. Health care is more directly–and more immediately–impacted by financial issues today than it ever has been. This [...]
Editorial Reviews
Amazon Exclusive: Liaquat Ahamed on the Economic Climate
In December 1930, the great economist Maynard Keynes published an article in which he described the world as living in “the shadows of one of the greatest economic catastrophes in modern history.” The [...]
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The publishers of the newsletter Strategic Investment predict far-reaching social and economic changes over the next five years. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Tough-minded socioeconomic forecasts that, while in the alarmist tradition of Ravi Batra, [...]
In contemporary American political discourse, issues related to the scope, authority, and the cost of the federal government are perennially at the center of discussion. Any historical analysis of this topic points directly to the Great Depression, the “moment” to which most historians and economists connect the origins of the fiscal, monetary, and [...]
From Library Journal
Matusow (history, Rice Univ.; The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960’s, 1984) offers the first complete history of Nixonomics. Nixon generally ignored fiscal and monetary matters, preferring to devote himself to foreign policy. George Shultz, Treasury secretary, is lauded as Nixon’s [...]
From Publishers Weekly
The first serious account of the Crash of 1929 was Only Yesterday, by Frederick Lewis Allen, published less than two years after the event and still in print. Disappointingly, Klein’s effort is almost a chapter-by-chapter retelling of Only Yesterday, adding some research from the last [...]
From Publishers Weekly
The first serious account of the Crash of 1929 was Only Yesterday, by Frederick Lewis Allen, published less than two years after the event and still in print. Disappointingly, Klein’s effort is almost a chapter-by-chapter retelling of Only Yesterday, adding some research from the last [...]
From Library Journal
Cowie (industrial and labor relations, Cornell Univ.) highlights the power of financial capital in his examination of four RCA factory sites: Camden, NJ; Bloomington, IN; Memphis, TN; and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. RCA moved production from one site to the next in search of cheap, compliant, [...]
During the 1920s, the United States, suddenly aware of its potential following success in World War I, offered bright promise to its youth and especially to its rural youth. Harold Breimyer, the author of this memoir, was one of those rural youth- an Ohio farm boy. In this evocative memoir, told in the [...]
From Library Journal
Cowie (industrial and labor relations, Cornell Univ.) highlights the power of financial capital in his examination of four RCA factory sites: Camden, NJ; Bloomington, IN; Memphis, TN; and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. RCA moved production from one site to the next in search of cheap, compliant, [...]
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