The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Late Great USA" returns with a powerful follow-up that shows how America's economic crises have forced the country to accept global solutions.
When the financial crisis struck in 2008, Main Street felt the blow just as hard as Wall Street. The "New York Times" national economics correspondent Peter S. Goodman takes us behind the headlines and exposes how the flow of capital from Asia and Silicon Valley to the suburbs of the housing bubble perverted America's economy. He follows a real ...
How has domestic life been reorganized to accommodate the new U.S. imperial ambitions? What are the consequences of empire for the people living here "at home"? This new collection of essays answers these questions by exploring the cultural, political, and economic shifts that are now under way in the United States. Encouraging a radical ...
This book presents analyses of several distressed industries in the United States, including the steel, footwear, textile and apparel, paper and publishing, and automobile industries. It particularly focuses on the influence of the new era of globalization on these industries, as the authors argue that the transition to their current distressed ...
Maynard presents a compelling, story-driven narrative about how foreign companies, despite the suspicion and unease many Americans harbor, are powerfully and positively transforming America's communities and economy.
Management as we know it has been the driver of business growth in U.S. economies for a couple of centuries. Yet the practice of management is no longer focused on creating real value. Instead, it is now all about using sophisticated financial techniques-and practices like outsourcing and downsizing, among others-to improve profitability. Such ...
The Impact of 9-11 on Business and Economics is the second volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. Morgan. The series brings together from a broad spectrum of disciplines the leading thinkers of our time to reflect on one of the most significant events of our time. The volume reflects on the changes ...
"Social Problems" is a contemporary collection of articles covering core issues within the broad topic of social problems. The book is intended to supplement core courses in the Sociology curriculum titled Social Problems, Introductory Sociology, Principles of Sociology, among other similarly titled courses. The book has a 4-part structure of ...
US capitalism has long been ranked first among nations in production, jobs, wealth, power, and individual freedom. Is this level of pre-eminence likely to continue? In this candid, sobering assessment of our current fiscal maladies, economist Robert H. Parks explains why he predicts capitalism is now rushing to its demise. A strong opponent of the ...
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