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Economics (McGraw-Hill Economics)
McConnell and Brue’s Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies is the leading Principles of Economics textbook. It continues to be innovative while teaching students in a clear, unbiased way. The 18th Edition builds upon the tradition of leadership by sticking to 3 main goals: help the beginning student master the principles essential for understanding the economizing problem, specific economic issues, and the policy alternatives; help the student understand and apply the economic perspective and reason accurately and objectively about economic matters; and promote a lasting student interest in economics and the economy.Author: Campbell McConnell, Stanley Brue, Sean Flynn
Hardcover: 880 pages
Company: McGraw-Hill/Irwin (2008-10-24)
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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
A simple, straightforward analysis of economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy.Author: Henry Hazlitt
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Company: Three Rivers Press (1988-12-14) (1988-12-14)
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
With new material from the author "Economic hit men," John Perkins writes," are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization." John Perkins should know-he was an economic hit man for an international consulting firm that worked to convince developing countries to accept enormous loans and to funnel that money to U.S. corporations. Once these countries were saddled with huge debts, the American government and international aid agencies were able to request their "pound of flesh" in favors, including access to natural resources, military cooperation, and political support. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is the story of one man's experiences inside the intrigue, greed, corruption and little-known government and corporate activities that America has been involved in since World War II, and which have dire consequences for the future of democracy and the world.
Author: John Perkins
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Economic Report of the President 2010
The Economic Report of the President for 2010 is written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. An important vehicle for presenting the Administration's domestic and international economic policies, it provides an overview of the nation's economic progress with text and extensive data appendices. For more than sixty years, the Economic Report has provided a nearly contemporaneous record of how Administrations have interpreted economic developments, the motivation for policy actions, and the results of those interventions. This year's volume has attempted to stay true to this proud legacy. It provides a detailed economic history of the first year of the Obama Administration. It examines the economic challenges that we face as a Nation, the many policy actions that have already been taken to address these challenges, and the President's proposals for further action. The economic challenges facing the Nation when President Obama took office were among the greatest in our history. Last January, the American economy was truly in freefall. Real GDP was falling at an annual rate of more than 6 percent and the U.S. economy was losing jobs at the devastating rate of almost 800,000 per month. Our financial markets, having narrowly avoided collapse in the financial panic of the early fall of 2008, were paralyzed with fear, and borrowers of all sorts, from households to small businesses to large corporations, were having trouble accessing the credit necessary for normal economic activity. The threat of a second Great Depression was both genuine and terrifying.Author: The Council of Economic Advisers of the President, Executive Office of the President of the United States
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Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
This completely revised and updated third edition of Thomas Sowell's instrumental work includes a new chapter on government finance. Basic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics--for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Sowell reveals the general principles behind any kind of economy--capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim. With clear explanations of the entire field, from rent control and the rise and fall of businesses to the international balance of payments, this is the first book for anyone who wishes to understand how the economy functions.Author: Thomas Sowell
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Polling everyone I know about the health care reform bill, I find 50 % are for it and 50% are against it… though I have yet to find one who can tell me with certainty, what it contains.
The arguments for the new bill boil down to…”Health Care is too expensive now. After this bill it will be cheaper.” The arguments against the new bill boil down to “Health Care is fine now. It will cost more with this bill and be less effective.” …all depends on who you ask.
I do not like the system in place now. Nor do I like what is being offerred. In both cases, they collect my means of paying for my health and then tell me how it can be spent. They support a system of required pharmaceutical ingestion which I do not condone. Neither plan covers the classical homeopathic care I choose. Both plans refuse to cover the early preventive measures I demand, such as massage, health spa, nutritional supplements, organic fresh whole food. I have yet to find one that reimburses me for my exercise time. If I am going to allocate $400+ per month for my well being, I want Health Assurance, not Medical Insurance.
Beware any political policy reduced to two choices. Neither one is good for you and either one serves them, not us. I want the one that nourishes me. At least now I can opt out and invest in my health as I see fit.
The Mennonite Community in the Eastern Pennsylvania region has a wonderful system. Everyone pays into a church health fund and when you need care, be it holistic or natural or homeopathic or experimental or supplemental… you go, you pay and submit the bill and proof of your payment to the fund for reimbursement… no questions asked. Of course, the Mennonites live the Golden Rule doing unto others as they would have others do unto them and believe that if you don’t work you don’t eat and that idle hands are the devil’s workplace… so there is a built in moral safeguard against abuse of the system.
Last I saw ’round here its every man for himself and get all you can out of the system no matter which side you are on. After all, they don’t pay near enough anyway, right? No health care system will work under that attitude. For when you pay people to be sick, you get an awful lot of sick people.
I, personally, do NOT want to be one of them.
~Loretta Darling Nicola~