economic policy

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Economic sanity or collapse

including the Roman-Loebl approach to economics
1980
Analyzes the American economy and economic policies and proposes the Roman-Loebl economic theories as a means of solving current problems and preventing future ones.

Russia in the era of NEP

explorations in Soviet society and culture
1991
A collection of eighteen essays about the New Economic Policy era of the Soviet Union.

Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society

1998
Examines the underlying ideas and principal objectives of the original Great Society legislation proposed by President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s, and discusses why the reforms Johnson sought in the areas of civil rights, health care, poverty, education, urban life, and consumerism ultimately failed to achieve their purpose.

The man who sold the world

Ronald Reagan and the betrayal of Main Street America
2009
Discusses the legacy of Ronald Reagan's presidency, arguing that despite people's nostalgia for his time in office, he destroyed the American way of life by initiating unsustainable economic policies while pioneering the use of divisive issues to distract everyday citizens.

Mao and the economic Stalinization of China, 1948-1953

2006
Describes why, in 1953, Chairman Mao changed China's economic policies to Stalinist socialism and its effect on the nation and its people.

Women at the gates

gender and industry in Stalin's Russia
2002
Offers a social history of Soviet women workers in the 1930s, discussing how the country's economy, politics, and social structure was changed when women entered the work force in unprecedented numbers.

We are the poors

community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa
2002

America's recession

the effects of the economic downturn
2011
Examines the roots of the recession of the early twenty-first century, discusses how the economic downturn was addressed and its effects, and describes how people live through a recession.

Predator nation

corporate criminals, political corruption, and the hijacking of America
2012
Argues that the financial sector is taking over America causing it to become one of the most unequal and unfair societies, and offers a plan of action to take back the country.

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