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  • The Drive for Dollars

    How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities

    The story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the 20th century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the 21st. American cities are distinct from almost all others in the degree to which freeways and freeway travel dominate urban landscapes. In The Drive for Dollars, Brian D. Taylor, Eric A. Morris, and Jeffrey R. Brown tell the largely ... Leer más

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    The Drive for Dollars

    How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities

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    The story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the twentieth century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the twenty-first.American cities are distinct from almost all others in the degree to which freeways and freeway travel dominate urban landscapes. In The Drive for Dollars, Brian D. Taylor, Eric A. Morris, and Jeffrey R. Brown tell the ... Leer más

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  • Relentless Change

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    Casebooks in business history are designed to instruct students in classrooms and boardrooms about the evolution of business management. The first casebook for the study of business history in a Canadian context, Joseph E. Martin's text will help students, both in the classroom and the boardroom, understand the Canadian economy and guide them in making sound decisions and contributing to a healthy ... Leer más

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  • American Amnesia

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    A “provocative” (Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what’s good for American business and what’s good for Americans—and why those interests are misaligned.In American Amnesia, bestselling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson trace the economic and political history of the United States over the last century and show how a viable mixed economy has long been the ... Leer más

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  • Cornered

    The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction

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  • Rebooting the American Dream

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    de Thom Hartmann ...
    "If we are going to live in a democracy, we need to have a healthy middle class . . . tells us what needs to be done to reclaim what it is to be American." —Eric Utne, founder, Utne ReaderAmerica does not need an "upgrade." For years the Right has been tampering with one of the best political operating systems ever designed. The result has been economic and environmental disaster.In this hard ... Leer más

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  • Is China Buying the World?

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    China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. ‘China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which regularly carry articles suggesting that it is using its financial resources to ‘buy the world'.Is there any truth to this idea? Or is ... Leer más

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  • The Race To The Bottom

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  • Becoming a Citizen Activist

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    The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History

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