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The terrible 10 : a century of economic folly /
The U.S. economy made impressive gains in the 20th century, but this progress makes it easy to forget a harsh reality: Americans were the victims of disastrous government policies that cost trillions of dollars in wasted resources, created mass unemployment, and kept millions of people in poverty wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
The Independent Institute,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication Page; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Prohibition: The War on Booze; 2. Monetary Policy During the Great Depression: How to Turn a Recession into a Depression; 3. The Hawley-Smoot Act: Holy Smoke, we Started a Trade War!; 4. Social Security: America's Greatest Ponzi Scheme?; 5. Tax Follies: The 91-Percent Solution; 6. Medicare and Medicaid: Unsustainable Promises; 7. The Nixon-Burns Political Business Cycle: How to Create a Decade of Inflation; 8. Environmental Mismanagement: How to Make a River Burn and Other Magic Tricks.
- 9. Government Failure and the Great Recession: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare10. Decades of Deficits: The Real Red Menace; Epilogue: Can Government Governance be Improved?; References; Index; About the Author; Back Cover.