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Author Sánchez, Nicolás

Title Destined for failure : American prosperity in the age of bailouts / Nicolás Sánchez, Christopher Kopp, Francis Sanzari
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction and theory -- Surviving the media age of misinformation -- Regulation : the Achilles' heel of the American economy -- Curing health care -- Investing in health and education -- American unions : Robin Hoods or white collar criminals? -- Housing without foundations : how a flawed ideology led to crisis -- Foreign policy, foreign failure -- Polluting the economy with environmental regulation -- Taxing more and producing less -- Ensuring disaster with moral hazard -- The burden of the Keynesian cross -- Putting it all together
Summary This book provides a historical background of the American business cycle, challenges the validity of conventional Keynesian ideology, and presents a bold, alternative theory of how production leads to wealth in our modern economy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Government spending policy -- United States.
Fiscal policy -- United States
Keynesian economics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Economic policy.
Fiscal policy.
Government spending policy.
Keynesian economics.
SUBJECT United States -- Economic policy -- 2009- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009006640
Subject United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Kopp, Christopher.
Sanzari, Francis.
ISBN 9780313392641
0313392641
9781282728608
1282728601
9786612728600
6612728604