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Family Economics and Public Policy, 1800s–Present
How Laws, Incentives, and Social Programs Drive Family Decision-Making and the US Economy
Inbunden, 2018
1207 kr
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This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded to incentives and constraints …
Family Economics and Public Policy, 1800s–Present
How Laws, Incentives, and Social Programs Drive Family Decision-Making and the US Economy
Häftad, 2019
869 kr
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This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded to incentives and constraints …
Atlantic Metropolis
An Economic History of New York City
Inbunden, 2019
1227 kr
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This book applies the contents of a working economist’s tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley. Collectively those millions of decisions have …
Atlantic Metropolis
An Economic History of New York City
Häftad, 2020
1227 kr
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This book applies the contents of a working economist’s tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley. Collectively those millions of decisions have …
Who Governs?
Legislatures, Bureaucracies, or Markets?
Av John H. Wood
Inbunden, 2020
1227 kr
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When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved. But is it? Are …
Who Governs?
Legislatures, Bureaucracies, or Markets?
Av John H. Wood
Häftad, 2021
1227 kr
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When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved. But is it? Are …
Corporate Conservatives Go to War
How the National Association of Manufacturers Planned to Restore American Free Enterprise, 1939–1948
Inbunden, 2020
1116 kr
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World War II presented a unique opportunity for American business to improve its reputation after years of censure for inflicting the Great Depression upon the nation. No employers’ organization worked harder or devoted greater resources to reviving business prestige during the war than the …
Corporate Conservatives Go to War
How the National Association of Manufacturers Planned to Restore American Free Enterprise, 1939–1948
Häftad, 2021
1116 kr
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World War II presented a unique opportunity for American business to improve its reputation after years of censure for inflicting the Great Depression upon the nation. No employers’ organization worked harder or devoted greater resources to reviving business prestige during the war than the …
New Balance of Payments for the United States, 1790–1919
International Movement of Free and Enslaved People, Funds, Goods and Services
Inbunden, 2021
1338 kr
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This book develops new balance of payments statistics for the United States from 1790 to 1919, before official statistics were kept. Part I of this book justifies construction of a new balance of payments table, and Chapter 1 surveys existing tables from that standpoint. Chapter 2 shows how this …
New Balance of Payments for the United States, 1790–1919
International Movement of Free and Enslaved People, Funds, Goods and Services
Häftad, 2022
1338 kr
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This book develops new balance of payments statistics for the United States from 1790 to 1919, before official statistics were kept. Part I of this book justifies construction of a new balance of payments table, and Chapter 1 surveys existing tables from that standpoint. Chapter 2 shows how this …
Political Economy of a Living Wage
Progressives, the New Deal, and Social Justice
Inbunden, 2016
1116 kr
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This book tells the story behind President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s use of the phrase "living wage" in a variety of speeches, letters, and statements, and examines the degree to which programs of the New Deal reflected the ideas of a living wage movement that existed in the US for almost three …
Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum
A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue
Av Jeffrey Abt
Inbunden, 2017
1300 kr
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This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts. It presents the history of the museum in the context of the social, economic, and …
Political Economy of a Living Wage
Progressives, the New Deal, and Social Justice
Häftad, 2018
1425 kr
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This book tells the story behind President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s use of the phrase "living wage" in a variety of speeches, letters, and statements, and examines the degree to which programs of the New Deal reflected the ideas of a living wage movement that existed in the US for almost three …
Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum
A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue
Av Jeffrey Abt
Häftad, 2018
1316 kr
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This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts. It presents the history of the museum in the context of the social, economic, and …
