Saving Capitalism

  • Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933-1940
    Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933-1940
    By James Stuart Olson

    Finally, a small but vocal group of economists, led by Professors Irving Fisher of Yale and George Warren and Frank Pearson of Cornell, believed commodity prices were linked to the price of gold and its relation to paper currency.

  • Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
    Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
    By Robert B. Reich

    ... top 1 percent: See Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez, “Top Incomes in the Long Run of History,” Journal of Economic Literature 49, no. 1 (2011): 41–42. When railroad workers went on strike: See Robert E. Weir, ...

  • Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
    Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
    By Robert B. Reich

    The prevailing view -- The five building blocks of capitalism -- Freedom and power -- The new property -- The new monopoly -- The new contracts -- The new bankruptcy -- The enforcement mechanism -- Summary : the market mechanism as a whole ...

  • Saving Capitalism: Keeping America Strong
    Saving Capitalism: Keeping America Strong
    By Pat Choate

    The economist author of Agents of Influence presents a sobering assessment of the current financial crisis that argues for bold reform measures, challenging popular beliefs about free-market absolutism while recommending specific changes to ...

  • Saving Capitalism: Keeping America Strong
    Saving Capitalism: Keeping America Strong
    By Pat Choate

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt not only saved the American economy, he saved market capitalism itself. Seventyfive years later, President Barack Obama now faces the same challenge, but in a far more complex and economically integrated ...

  • Saving Capitalism: For The Many, Not The Few
    Saving Capitalism: For The Many, Not The Few
    By Robert Reich

    'A very good guide to the state we’re in' Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books 'A well-written, thought-provoking book by one of America’s leading economic thinkers and progressive champions.'...

  • Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933-1940
    By James Stuart Olson

    For two generations historians have debated the significance of the New Deal, arguing about what it tried and tried not to do, whether it was radical or reactionary, and what...

  • Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
    Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
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    Saving Capitalism by Robert B. Reich | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review Preview: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich examines the intersection of economics and politics in order to make sense of income inequality ...