What's The Matter With The US Economy? - Couverture souple

Gutmann, Peter

 
9781434343734: What's The Matter With The US Economy?
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1434343731 ISBN 13 : 9781434343734
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2007

Synopsis

The US economy does many things right. But it also does many things wrong. This book is focused on aspects of the US economy that require some correction.The book is addressed to the intelligent general reader. It does not use equations, graphs, diagrams, footnotes or arcane gobbledygook.The book is divided into 26 chapters in 8 sections. Each section covers a general theme.Globalization: effect of the huge increase in the world's effective labor force, competition in more labor categories and shift in comparative advantage on the US import surplus and the dollar.Social Justice: division of the US into three societies - the rich, the poor and the middle class, separate and unequal; income distribution; access; entitlements; capture of Congress by producers as opposed to consumers.Life's Essentials: problems with health, education, housing, work, retirement and pensions, energy.Personal Risk: increase in personal risk of our population and the anxieties this creates; desire to reduce personal risk.The Macroeconomy: eating the house; problems of demand, savings, government deficits; living beyond our means; mortgaging the future.The State: who gets the tax dollar; overcommitment by government; infrastructure problems.Assets: the liquidity sloshing around the. world - effect on US housing prices; ensuing sub prime credit crunch - resurgence of sensitivity to risk (a risk shift) - near panic in the. bond markets; need to reexamine mortgage regulations,General: waste and excess in the US; the problems of immigration and resolution of those illegals already here.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The US economy does many things right. But it also does many things wrong. This book is focused on aspects of the US economy that require some correction.The book is addressed to the intelligent general reader. It does not use equations, graphs, diagrams, footnotes or arcane gobbledygook.The book is divided into 26 chapters in 8 sections. Each section covers a general theme.Globalization: effect of the huge increase in the world's effective labor force, competition in more labor categories and shift in comparative advantage on the US import surplus and the dollar.Social Justice: division of the US into three societies - the rich, the poor and the middle class, separate and unequal; income distribution; access; entitlements; capture of Congress by producers as opposed to consumers.Life's Essentials: problems with health, education, housing, work, retirement and pensions, energy.Personal Risk: increase in personal risk of our population and the anxieties this creates; desire to reduce personal risk.The Macroeconomy: eating the house; problems of demand, savings, government deficits; living beyond our means; mortgaging the future.The State: who gets the tax dollar; overcommitment by government; infrastructure problems.Assets: the liquidity sloshing around the. world - effect on US housing prices; ensuing sub prime credit crunch - resurgence of sensitivity to risk (a risk shift) - near panic in the. bond markets; need to reexamine mortgage regulations,General: waste and excess in the US; the problems of immigration and resolution of those illegals already here.

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter M. Gutmann is professor of Economics at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is the author of "Common Confusions in Macroeconomics", "Understanding Modern Macroeconomics" and "Macroeconomics in Brief". He has published in a range of economic journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Income Distribution, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Financial Analysts Journal and others. Professor Gutmann is widely known due to his pathbreaking work on the subterranean, or underground, economy which created a whole industry of articles and books by economists from all over the world on that subject. He has a doctorate from Harvard University. His dissertation title was "Income Distribution, Asset Values and Economic Growth". Professor Gutmann teaches macroeconomics and growth economics at Baruch College of the City University of New York.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1434343731
ISBN 13 
9781434343734
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
Coordonnées du fabricant
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