San Antonio College Library

Presents a collection of nineteen essays that debate economic issues such as Medicare Part D drug benefits, Social Security, unskilled immigrants, and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Provides an introduction to the structure and performance of the American economy; examines how the stock market works; describes the economic roles of businesses, households, and the government; and addresses topics such as globalization and immigration.

Joel Magnuson delivers a powerful response to the current misconceptions about the US economy in his brilliantly accessible Mindful Economics.

"Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between reality and 'conventional wisdom' -- a phrase he coined -- Galbraith tells, along with much else, how we have reached a point where the private sector has unprecedented control over the public sector. We have given ourselves over to self-serving belief and 'contrived nonsense' or, more simply, fraud. This has come at the expense of the economy, effective government, and the business world. Particularly...

Are you angry and confused by the financial collapse and fallout? This book explains what happened, how, and why--and what can be done to get out of the mess and make sure it doesn't happen again.

The early twenty-first century is witnessing a concerted effort to privatize risk--to shift responsibility for the management or mitigation of key risks onto private-sector organizations or directly onto individuals. Proposals to reform Social Security through the creation of private accounts are perhaps the leading example, but in a wide range of areas, similar trends are now playing out. Yet, ironically, pensions and other private systems for responding...

A study of a new class of millionaires who have come from the middle class and who have earned rather than inherited their wealth assesses the influence of the working rich and their attitudes on American society, institutions, values, and economy.

For the past three decades, we have been steadily creating an extreme time-crunch economy that has affected jobs, portfolios, businesses and lives. But the time-crunch economy is turning into the leisure economy and it will mean wrenching adjustments for our lives and institutions. Everyone from consumers, investors, businesses, and policy-makers will need to understand the changes afoot. This book posits profound economic changes in North America...

How doing business is undergoing a major historic transformation--and why we₂ve only begun our productivity upswing America₂s economic troubles have had a dramatic impact on how investors view markets and the businesses that drive them. And for now they have overshadowed a profound and ongoing revolution--still taking place after twenty-five years--in the way the economy operates. Just as in past economic revolutions, today₂s "new economy" emerged...