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Author Earl Berg examines poverty through a conservative lens. Berg explains how poverty and inequality undermine personal and family responsibility, how poverty creates massive economic inefficiencies, how poverty makes a mockery of the sacred principles of representative democracy, and how poverty creates big government.

Berg's wit brings the important, but dismal, subject of poverty to life.

Anyone with a curiosity or academic interest in...

The concepts discussed in "Citizen's Guide" are important to all Americans because the application of these concepts by policy makers can have a significant impact on the growth of the U.S. economy, which determines...

The authors believe that capitalism works best, but without an underlying moral foundation, it can easily slip into a dysfunctional economy when necessary conditions for capitalism do not exist. The authors measure the success and failure of government policies based on historical and factual evidence in each country. A policy failure in one country, however, does not necessarily indicate that the policy per se was wrong unless similar policies also failed in other countries. That is why cross-country comparison in "Failed "is useful. Understanding other countries is more important today...

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America Unequal demonstrates how powerful economic forces have diminished the prospects of millions of Americans and why "a rising tide no longer lifts all boats." Changes in the economy, public policies, and family structure have contributed to slow growth in family incomes and rising economic inequality. Poverty remains high because of an erosion of employment opportunities for less-skilled workers, not because of an erosion of the work ethic; because of a failure of government to do more for the poor and the middle class, not because of social programs.

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When Michael Harrington's masterpiece, The Other America, was first published in 1962, it was hailed as an explosive work and became a galvanizing force for the war on poverty. Harrington shed light on...

With the near bankruptcy of centrally planned economies now apparent and with capitalism seemingly incapable of generating egalitarian outcomes in the first world and economic development in the third world, alternative approaches to managing economic affairs are an urgent necessity. Until now, however, descriptions of alternatives have been unconvincing. Here Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel support the libertarian socialist tradition by presenting a rigorous, well-defined model of how producers and consumers could democratically plan their interconnected activities.

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In the 1970s and 1980s the countries of Latin America dealt with their similar debt problems in very different ways--ranging from militantly market-oriented approaches to massive state intervention in their economies--while their political systems headed toward either democracy or authoritarianism. Applying the tools of modern political economy to a developing-country context, Jeffry Frieden analyzes the different patterns of national economic and political behavior that arose in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela. This book will be useful to those interested in comparative...

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman are widely acclaimed for their pioneering theoretical studies of how special interest groups seek to influence the policymaking process in democratic societies. This collection of eight of their previously published articles is a companion to their recent monograph, Special Interest Politics. It clarifies the origins of some of the key ideas in their monograph and shows how their methods can be used to illuminate policymaking in a critical area.

Following an original introduction to the contents of the book and its relationship to...