Om centrale økonomiske teorier i de sidste 25 år og om amerikanske politikeres brug og forvanskning af disse
The past twenty years have been an era of economic disappointment in the United States. They have also been a time of intense economic debate, as rival ideologies contend for policy influence. Above all, they have been the age of the policy entrepreneur - the economic snake-oil …
This book explores the origins of Arthur Laffers economic theories and how they became a part of mainstream economic policy. Utilizing interviews and archival material, Laffers life is traced from his early education through to his time working for the Nixon and Reagan administr…
"The book explores the American freemarket economy, espoused by Alan Greenspan, the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve, through decoding the discourse of economics. Combining an analysis of both economics and language, the legacy of Reaganomics is examined in relation to e…
Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole and of the work and saving choices of individual economic agents from which macroeconomic activity emerges. This book, produced in two volumes, takes an integrative approach to that topic. It introduces macroeconomics as a st…
Gilder compares America's current economic challenges with her past economic problems-- particularly those of the late 1970s-- and explains why Obama's big-government, redistributive policies are doing more harm than good for the poor. He makes the case that supply-side economic…