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Author: John B. Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-01-23
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0393073394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading economist John B. Taylor's straightforward plan to rebuild America's economic future by returning to its founding principles.
Author: Earl H. Fry
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014-07-22
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0739197479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American people generally perceive that the United States is headed in “the wrong direction,” US influence worldwide is waning, Capitol Hill is not adequately representing the public’s interests, and their personal economic wellbeing is in jeopardy. This book squarely tackles the list of “fault lines” currently facing the United States, including, among others, Beltway dysfunctionalism, concentrated wealth and income not seen since the late 1920s, an ultra-expensive and inefficient health-care system, runaway entitlement spending, stagnant upward mobility, debilitating “crony capitalism,” and incoherent foreign policy. Even more importantly, the book offers explicit policy recommendations for solving each fault line, relying extensively on “best practices” in the public and private sectors both at home and abroad. Moreover, the author emphasizes that the United States is entering a special period which provides it with advantages not found anywhere else in the world—a major energy boom, favorable demographics, unparalleled high-technology innovation, huge inward investment flows from abroad, the revival of its manufacturing sector, and its magnetism in attracting to its shores the very best and brightest from around the world. Dr. Fry asserts that it is quite reasonable to assume that the United States will enter a “Renaissance America” period by 2030. Doing so, however, will require painful short-term sacrifices, major policy changes, and the restoration of vibrant representative government. In effect, the American people must overwhelmingly embrace Abraham Lincoln’s vision of governance “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
Author: Alan Uke
Publisher: SelectBooks
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1590792300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A successful American entrepreneur offers solutions to the loss of American jobs and manufacturing. To help consumers understand buying choices, he advocates a movement to pass laws to label imports with the percentages of a product's costs of manufacture in the countries of origin and data showing whether trade ratios are balanced and beneficial to the United States"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Mark Mykleby
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-06-14
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1250072301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Reimagines the American dream and provides a bipartisan plan to recapture the greatness of the past through addressing important economic, social and environmental issues by making sustainability our country's new strategic imperative, "--NoveList.
Author: Gary P. Pisano
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1422187543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManufacturing’s central role in global innovation Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capabilities. They reveal how today’s undervalued manufacturing operations often hold the seeds of tomorrow’s innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the US industrial sector. Only by reviving this “industrial commons” can the world’s largest economy build the expertise and manufacturing muscle to regain competitive advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance—for restoring itself, and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of industries and economies, and they provide business leaders with a framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research, and promote collaboration between business and academia. For executives, policymakers, academics, and innovators alike, Producing Prosperity provides the clearest and most compelling account yet of how the American economy lost its competitive edge—and how to get it back.
Author: Wellford W. Wilms
Publisher: Crown Business
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid and revealing portrait of companies, unions, and individuals fighting to change and survive, Restoring Prosperity offers a road map which will lead workers and management to a better future. Wilms and his team were granted complete access to all employees at four major companies which were struggling, to get a first-hand view of how management reforms really filter down to the shop floor.
Author: George Pratt Shultz
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: EMIL RECHSTEINER
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1493182412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first decade of the third millennium brought economic stagnation, poverty, and long stretches of unemployment to millions of Americans while a small elite prospered beyond the wildest dreams. The book examines twentieth century technical/economic developments that had moved the economy forward in major ways for the benefit of millions. The author points to gigantic corporate and personal tax evasion as a principal reason for economic stagnation and for harsh conditions for the powerless. The book decries the fixation on austerity in the US Congress and instead counsels spending boldly for fixing our crumbling infrastructure and for mounting defenses against the effects of changing climate. The unemployed are viewed as an idle resource rather than a burden, and the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, arguably the last century's most influential economist, as a key to healing the corrosive lack of fairness in our land. The author lambastes reliance on bromides such as "small government is best" and "keep marginal tax rates low but expand the base." He advocates new tax brackets for upper incomes and taxes on carbon emissions and on select financial transactions. The proposed policy changes will generate a mighty river of money ensuring high levels of employment and prosperity and progress all around.
Author: Ray Marshall
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 91
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce Katz
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2004-05-13
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780815748588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe early returns from Census 2000 data show that the United States continued to undergo dynamic changes in the 1990s, with cities and suburbs providing the locus of most of the volatility. Metropolitan areas are growing more diverse—especially with the influx of new immigrants—the population is aging, and the make-up of households is shifting. Singles and empty-nesters now surpass families with children in many suburbs. The contributors to this book review data on population, race and ethnicity, and household composition, provided by the Census's "short form," and attempt to respond to three simple queries: —Are cities coming back? —Are all suburbs growing? —Are cities and suburbs becoming more alike? Regional trends muddy the picture. Communities in the Northeast and Midwest are generally growing slowly, while those in the South and West are experiencing explosive growth ("Warm, dry places grew. Cold, wet places declined," note two authors). Some cities are robust, others are distressed. Some suburbs are bedroom communities, others are hot employment centers, while still others are deteriorating. And while some cities' cores may have been intensely developed, including those in the Northeast and Midwest, and seen population increases, the areas surrounding the cores may have declined significantly. Trends in population confirm an increasingly diverse population in both metropolitan and suburban areas with the influx of Hispanic and Asian immigrants and with majority populations of central cities for the first time being made up of minority groups. Census 2000 also reveals that the overall level of black-to-nonblack segregation has reached its lowest point since 1920, although high segregation remains in many areas. Redefining Urban and Suburban America explores these demographic trends and their complexities, along with their implications for the policies and politics shaping metropolitan America. The shifts discussed here have significant influence
