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Faith and liberty : the economic thought of the late scholastics / by Chafuen, Alejandro Antonio.(CARDINAL)756730;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Economics; Economics; Economics; Scholasticism;
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Tariffs and the future of trade / by Doyle, Eamon,1988-editor.(CARDINAL)803665;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Are tariffs and other protectionist policies worth the risk? Overview: What are tariffs, what is a trade war, and why are they important? / Michael Johnson ; It may not be the answer today, but protectionism has worked in the past / Zhang Jun ; Protectionism and economic theory / Alexander Tziamalis ; International strategy and the viability of tariffs / Evan Horowitz ; The potential hazards of a trade war between the United States and China / Linda Yueh ; There is no upside to engaging in a trade war / Robert Higgs ; The cost of a large-scale trade war for the global economy / Manoj Joshi ; To understand the benefits of free trade, consider US history / Jason Margolis -- Does free trade benefit investors at the expense of workers? Overview: A history of economic theory on trade policy / William Krist ; The impact of globalization on labor markets and income distribution / Uri Dadush and William Shaw ; Why international cooperation on labor standards is important / International Labour Organization ; Globalization and the distribution of its benefits / Xavier Devictor ; Everyone benefits from a global free trade environment / Denise Froning ; Evidence shows that international trade agreements benefit the US labor market / Brandon Scudder ; Workers are also consumers, and protectionism drives up costs for all consumers / Zornitsa Kutlina-Dimitrova and Csilla Lakatos ; The benefits of free trade far outweigh the costs, including for workers / Ana Revenga and Anabel Gonzales -- Does global trade reduce benefits of a local cultural and economic system? Overview: What is globalization and what are its effects? / Lumen Learning ; Globalization and Islam / Mohd Abbas Abdul Razak ; The impact of globalization on cultural diversity and heritage / UNESCO Publications ; Financial globalization can lead to increased volatility / Jonathan D. Ostry ; Globalization's negative impacts on mental health among people from Non-Western cultures / Narayan Gopalkrishnan ; Trade policy and the economic health of the United States / The World Trade Organization ; Critics often exaggerate the scale and depth of globalization / Pankaj Ghemawat ; Critics of global capitalism and free trade are missing the bigger picture / Michael Matheson Miller ; Protectionism harms consumers and workers / The World Bank Group -- Organizations to contact.
Subjects: Tariff.; Free trade.; Commercial policy.; International trade.;
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The inequality paradox : how capitalism can work for everyone / by McWilliams, Douglas,author.(CARDINAL)783562;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.Part I: Setting the scene. How Piketty created an industry ; Three different types and four different causes of inequality ; Why inequality really matters -- Part II: Analysis and implications. Has the world become more unequal? ; The paradox of rising inequality and falling poverty ; Inequality and growth -- Part III: The deserving and the undeserving rich. Who are the super-rich? ; The undeserving rich ; Clogs to clogs in five generations--not three -- Part IV: Fixing the problem. Elephants, camels and spitting cobras : what happens next? ; Education, education, education--and education ; Saving capitalism from itself ; Attacking the law of unintended consequences ; Making poorer people richer by cutting the cost of living ; Can a universal basic income really work? ; Using taxation for redistribution ; Neither Trump nor Corbyn--rejecting false solutions.A leading economist challenges dominant theories on global inequality, discussing why wealth persistently remains in the hands of a few and how technological development threatens to create a scarcity of unskilled jobs that will lead to even greater inequality.
Subjects: Income distribution.; Capitalism.; Technological innovations; Economic history.;
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Delivering digital images : cultural heritage resources for education / by Stephenson, Christie D.(Christie Dulaney),1948-(CARDINAL)268658; McClung, Patricia A.(CARDINAL)184494;
Includes bibliographical references.Foreword / Eleanor Fink -- Preface / Kathleen McDonnell -- Editor's notes and acknowledgments / Christie Stephenson and Patricia McClung -- Part I. Project background and history. The evolution of the MESL project / Christie Stephenson -- Part II. Legal and administrative issues. Project background -- framing the issues / Christie Stephenson -- Establishing the terms and conditions for educational institutional licensing of museum images: a summary of issues and priorities / Mary Levering -- Establishing the terms and conditions for educational institutional licensing of museum images: a framework for museums and universities / Mary Levering and Melissa Smith Levine -- Part III. Content selection. Introduction -- Content selection in the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project / Andrea Notman -- Part IV. Technical issues. Introduction -- The MESL Data Dictionary and the data export process / Robin Dowden -- Digital image production issues / Christie Stephenson -- The MESL distribution process / Christie Stephenson and Clifford Lynch -- MESL implementation at the universities / Howard Besser.Part V. Use and impact. Introduction -- MESL impact: museum perspective / Patricia McClung -- MESL impact: university perspective / Patricia McClung -- Findings of the instructor/student survey / Beth Sandore -- Findings of the MESL casual user survey / Geraldine Gay, Robert Rieger, and Amanda Sturgill -- Part VI. Economic issues. Introduction -- The costs of digital image distribution: theory, methods and preliminary results of the Mellon study / Robert Yamashita -- Part VII. Conclusion. Looking ahead / Christie Stephenson and Patricia McClung -- Part VIII. Appendices. Appendix A: goals and objectives -- Appendix B: Cooperative agreement -- Appendix C: Data dictionary -- Appendix D: Chart of the MESL field usage -- Appendix E: Instructor/student surveys -- Appendix F: Casual user survey.This pioneering two-year project explored the legal, technical, and practical issues involved in using digital images of museum collections for educational purposes. The report includes essays by project participants for the fourteen museums and universities that participated in this project, and recommends terms and conditions for distributing digital museum images via the Internet and/or university campus networks.
Subjects: Museum Educational Site Licensing Project.; Art; Picture archiving and communication systems; Pictures in education;
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The vanishing middle class : prejudice and power in a dual economy / by Temin, Peter,author.(CARDINAL)122701;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- A dual economy -- The FTE sector -- The low-wage sector -- Transition -- Race and gender -- The investment theory of politics -- Preferences of the very rich -- Concepts of government -- Mass incarceration -- Public education -- American cities -- Personal and national debts -- Comparisons -- Conclusions."The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between rich and poor. Temin employs a well-known, simple model of a dual economy to examine the dynamics of the rich/poor divide in America, and outlines ways to work toward greater equality so that America will no longer have one economy for the rich and one for the poor. Many poorer Americans live in conditions resembling those of a developing country--substandard education, dilapidated housing, and few stable employment opportunities. And although almost half of black Americans are poor, most poor people are not black. Conservative white politicians still appeal to the racism of poor white voters to get support for policies that harm low-income people as a whole, casting recipients of social programs as the Other--black, Latino, not like "us." Politicians also use mass incarceration as a tool to keep black and Latino Americans from participating fully in society. Money goes to a vast entrenched prison system rather than to education. In the dual justice system, the rich pay fines and the poor go to jail." -- Publisher's description
Subjects: Income distribution; Middle class; Minorities; Equality;
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Marx : a very short introduction / by Singer, Peter,1946-author.(CARDINAL)504124;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-125) and index.A life and its legacy -- The young Hegelian -- From God to money -- Enter the proletariat -- The first Marxism -- The development of the materialist theory of history -- The goal of history -- Economics -- Communism and revolution -- Was Marx right? -- Is Marx still relevant?Karl Marx's theories have shaped and directed political economic, and social thought for 150 years. Here the renowned philosopher Peter Singer describes Marx's life and early ideas before clearly and concisely identifying the central vision that unifies Marx's thought and enables us to grasp it as a whole. In this new edition. Singer explores whether Marx and his ideas remain relevant to politics and society today. Assessing Marx's impact and the predictions he made, Singer asks if, for the foreseeable future, there is any realistic prospect of replacing capitalism with a better system of production and distribution.
Subjects: Biographies.; Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.; Communists; Communism; Philosophy, Marxist.;
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The progress illusion : reclaiming our future from the fairytale of economics / by Erickson, Jon D.,author.(CARDINAL)862761;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index."Economics has become the principal way we define ourselves in the modern era. We are all taught to think like an economist, with total faith in the power of the individual, the purity of the free market, and our boundless future. The problem is that economics is a fairy tale-one that perpetuates vast inequality and environmental devastation. The Progress Illusion charts the rise of the economic worldview and its infiltration into our daily lives as a theory of everything. As private interest and market choice filled the void left by failing democracies and wilting public dialogue, a pseudo-science of neoclassical economics came to dominate public policy. It was I over us, private over public, consumption over community. Ecological economist Jon Erickson calls for a challenge to this destructive philosophy, both within academia and in 'the real world,' through educational reform and grassroots social movements. By recognizing the realities of our finite planet, he shows, we can turn away from endless growth and toward enduring prosperity"--Publisher.
Subjects: Economic development; Sustainable development.; Environmental policy;
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Who benefits from state and local economic development policies? / by Bartik, Timothy J.(CARDINAL)192969;
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 331-346) and index.1. Boon or Boondoggle? The Debate Over State and Local Economic Development Policies. Focus on Local Economies. What is Economic Development Policy? Jobs Versus Other Goals of Economic Development Policies. Do State and Local Economic Development Policies Affect Growth? Does Local Growth Help the Unemployed and Lower-Income Households? Can State and Local Economic Development Policies Benefit the National Economy? Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? Organization of the Book. Notes -- 2. Can State and Local Policies Affect Economic Development? Evaluations of Specific Programs. Survey Evidence on the Influence of State and Local Policies. The Case Study Approach. Econometric Studies of State and Local Policies and Business Growth. Methodological and Data Issues in Business Location Modeling. Taxes. Public Services. Wages. Unionization. Environmental Regulations. Capital Market Imperfections. Conclusion. Notes -- 3. Theoretical Analysis of the Distributional Effects of Local Job Growth. Immobility of Labor. Short-Run Effects of Local Job Growth. Long-Run Effects of Growth. Long-Run Costs of Growth. Hysteresis Effects of Local Job Growth. Conclusion. Notes -- 4. Effects of Local Job Growth on Unemployment, Labor Force Participation, and Weekly Hours. Previous Research on Local Growth and Unemployment. New Estimates of the Effects of Local Job Growth. Effects of Growth Shocks in Slow- and Fast-Growth Areas. Effects of Local Job Growth on Different Groups.Appendix 4.1 Local Labor and Land Market Variables as a Function of Demand-Induced Shocks to Local Employment -- Appendix 4.2 Specification of Estimating Evaluations and Econometric Issues -- Appendix 4.3 Background Information on Data -- Appendix 4.4 Background Information on Empirical Results Used in Chapter 4 -- Appendix 5.1 Background Information on Chapter 5 Results -- Appendix 6.1 Background Information on Chapter 6 Results -- Appendix 7.1 Detailed Results for Real Earnings Regressions -- Appendix 7.2 Estimates of "Permanent" Real Earnings -- Appendix 8.1 Illustrative Arguments for Why State and Local Economic Development Policies May Provide National Employment Benefits.Conclusion. Notes -- 8. Is State and Local Economic Development Policy a Zero-Sum Game? The Easy Argument: Encouraging Productivity is not a Zero-Sum Game. Is Redistributing Jobs a Zero-Sum Game? Reservation Wages and Local Unemployment. Which Areas Pursue Economic Development? Does State and Local Competition Increase National Growth? Does State and Local Competition Affect the National Income Distribution? Conclusion. Notes -- 9. Conclusion: People and Places. Summary of Major Findings. State and Local Policies Affect Local Growth. Local Growth Has Long-Run Labor Market Effects. Faster Local Growth Helps Blacks and Less-Educated Individuals. State and Local Economic Development Policy Is Not a Zero-Sum Game. Implications for Public Policy. Two Cheers for State and Local Economic Development Policy. Labor Demand Matters. Places and National Policy. Notes -- Appendix 2.1 The Elasticity of State or Local Business Activity With Respect to Local Cost Variables Should Be Roughly Proportional to the Variable's Share in Costs -- Appendix 2.2 Studies of Effects of State and Local Taxes on Business Activity -- Appendix 2.3 Studies of Effects of Public Services on Business Location -- Appendix 2.4 Studies of Wage Effects on Business Location -- Appendix 2.5 Studies of Effects of Unionization on Business Activity -- Appendix 3.1 Alternative Hysteresis Theories and Local Labor Markets.Job Growth Versus Other Policies. Some Speculative Extensions to the Research Findings. Conclusion. Notes -- 5. Effects of Local Job Growth on Housing Prices and Other Prices. How Local Growth Affects Prices. Review of Previous Empirical Research. Effects of GM's Announcement of the Saturn Plant on Land Prices. New Econometric Research on Local Growth and Housing Prices. Effects of Local Growth on Nonhousing Prices. Are Effects on Housing and Land Prices Large? Conclusion. Notes -- 6. Effects of Local Job Growth on Real Wages. Real Wage Definitions and Growth. Previous Studies of Growth and Wages. Model and Data Used in this Chapter. New Estimates of the Effects of Growth on Real Wages. Growth Effects on Real Wages Across Different Groups. Conclusion. Notes -- 7. Effects of Economic Development Policy on Individual Earnings, Income Distribution, and Economic Efficiency. Effects of Local Growth on Real Earnings. Previous Research on Local Growth and Earnings. New Estimates of Local Growth Effects on Earnings. Consistency With Results of Previous Chapters. Effects of Local Growth on Earnings By Demographic Group. Effects of Economic Development Policy on Income Distribution. Local Growth and the Earnings Distribution. Property Value Effects. Distributional Effects on Family Income vs. Male Earnings. Economic Development and Lower-Income Households. Growth Effects on Individuals vs. Income or Earnings Groups. Net Efficiency Effects of Economic Development Policy.
Subjects: Economic development.; Economic policy.;
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Is America a democracy or an oligarchy? / by Doyle, Eamon,1988-Editor(DLC)n 2018005971;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Oligarchy : in theory and practice / Kimberly Amadeo -- Income distribution in the United States in the 20th century / Matthew Johnston -- Inequality is a threat to democracy / The Guardian -- Democracy doesn't guarantee economic liberty / Arthur Foulkes -- Money in politics and its impact on democracy / Jacob S. Hacker and Nathan Loewentheil -- Inequality and populism in the Trump era / Michael Sandel -- Populism : the antithesis of oligarchy / Stephen Barnes -- The politics of progressive reform in the United States / Daniel T. Rodgers -- Corporate power in American politics / Liz Kennedy -- Privatization and corporate wealth in the late twentieth century / Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh -- Bernie Sanders addresses global oligarchy / Jake Johnson -- Economic injustice in America / Bernie Sanders -- The case for democratic socialism / Bhaskar Sunkara -- Perspectives on populism / Nils Gilman -- Oligarchy in the legal system / Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza -- The decline of organized labor in America and why it matters / Jake Rosenfeld."Since the inception of the United States, certain democratic principles have been inherent to the nation's political identity. Theoretically, this means that all citizens should receive equal representation and opportunity. However, income inequality has grown in recent years and shows no signs of slowing. Some argue that the wealthy are given unequal power over the government and society as a whole, creating an oligarchy. The viewpoints in this volume examine the development of the country from political, social, and economic perspectives to determine whether the country can still be considered a democracy"--.
Subjects: Democracy; Oligarchy;
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Third Ways : How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economics--and Why They Disappeared. by Carlson, Allan C.(CARDINAL)756878;
Subjects: Family farms; Family-owned business enterprises.;
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