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2023.
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English
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In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names;...
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Consumer advocate, activist, humanitarian, and former presidential candidate Nader is arguably the most provocative and important progressive voice in America today. He offers a new program to help rescue America with powerful, paradigm-shifting proposals that address some of the most pressing concerns in our country.
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom"--
Health insurance, student loan debt, retirement savings, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership-- these are the issues driving America's current political debates. Konczal believes they are all linked by a single question: should we allow the free market to determine our lives? His answer is a resounding "no". With chapters on the history...
6) Exorbitant privilege: the decline of the dollar and the future of the international monetary system
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
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English
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The marble halls of the Federal Reserve have always held secrets; for decades the Fed did the utmost to preserve its room to maneuver, operating behind the scenes as much as possible. Yet over the past two decades, this elite world of bankers and economists speaking a language that only monetary experts could understand has been forced to change its ways. Amid rising inequality, weakening global economic prospects, and a pandemic, the central bank...
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Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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"With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing story of how FDR and his advisors pulled the levers of monetary policy to save the domestic economy and propel the United States to unprecedented prosperity and superpower status. Drawing on the ideas of the brilliant British economist John Maynard Keynes, among others, Roosevelt created the conditions for recovery from the Great Depression, deploying economic policy to fight the biggest threat...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard--breaking the link between gold and the dollar--transforming the entire global monetary system"--
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Over the last century, wars, depressions, political ambition, regulatory mistakes, greed and geopolitical competition have entirely transformed the Monetary System of the United States -- they have transformed the very nature of Money itself. The Money Revolution highlights that the new economic environment we find ourselves in today presents us with previously unimaginable opportunities to grow and prosper, and persuades the American public and...
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