America in Decline | Leon Sharpe | Taylor & Francis eBooks, Reference

ABSTRACT

"This collection gathers 91 essays that appeared in the pages of Challenge from 1973 through 2011."

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |4 pages

Economics for Sybarites

chapter |3 pages

Why Economists Disagree

chapter |5 pages

The Galbraithian Revolution

chapter |4 pages

Of Sticky Prices and Stinking Fish: The Wage-Price Spiral

chapter |3 pages

Gunnar Myrdal’s Challenge

chapter |9 pages

Portrait in Oil

chapter |7 pages

As You Like It

chapter |3 pages

The Praise of Folly

chapter |3 pages

Inﬂation and Defunct Ideas: President Ford’s Economic Summit

chapter |2 pages

The Economic Consequences of Friedrich A. von Hayek

chapter |3 pages

The Fear of Planning

chapter |8 pages

The Planning Bill

chapter |4 pages

Reply to a Critic of Planning

chapter |3 pages

Recovery Without Recovery

chapter |4 pages

The Continued Existence of New York City Is Not Essential to National Security

chapter 10|5 pages

Ten Rules for Full Employment Without Inﬂation

chapter |3 pages

The Lost Papers of Jack Tanner

chapter |2 pages

Do Economists Discover Economic Laws or Are They Passed by Congress?

chapter |4 pages

How to Plan the Economy

chapter |2 pages

Apologia Pro Vita Mea

chapter |4 pages

The Last Chronicle of Barset

chapter |4 pages

Advising Carter and Congress

chapter |3 pages

The Backward Art of Giving Advice

chapter |5 pages

JKG Versus the Angel

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chapter |4 pages

What Is an Incomes Policy All About? 106

chapter |3 pages

Little Red Riding Hood

chapter |6 pages

Searching for Homo sapiens

chapter |3 pages

Why a Tax-Based Incomes Policy Won’t Work

chapter |4 pages

Anniversaries

chapter |5 pages

Once More, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy

chapter |2 pages

Is Inﬂation Inevitable in Post-Keynesian Capitalism?

chapter |6 pages

When Britain Ran Out of Wood

chapter 30|3 pages

Thirty Years of Challenge

chapter |4 pages

The Speaker Speaks

chapter |5 pages

The Rise and Fall of the New Deal

chapter |4 pages

Ownership and Control

chapter |7 pages

Labor’s Future

chapter |5 pages

What’s Wrong with Economists?

chapter |4 pages

The Good Society and Its Enemies 167

chapter |5 pages

Adam Smith: Right and Wrong

chapter |5 pages

Short Takes: Pleasant and Unpleasant Reviews

chapter |4 pages

The Labor Movement and Black Ghettos: Two Reviews

chapter |7 pages

The Short Twentieth Century

chapter |7 pages

The Theft of Russia

chapter 40|7 pages

Forty-Thousand Years of History

chapter |5 pages

The Past and Future of Socialism: The Communist Manifesto at 150

chapter |4 pages

The Truman Show

chapter |3 pages

World Development for the Few

chapter |3 pages

Remembering Wassily Leontief, 1905–1999 217

chapter |4 pages

Social Health and Social Illth

chapter |1 pages

Robert Heilbroner, 1919–2005

chapter |5 pages

The Biography of John Kenneth Galbraith

chapter |1 pages

The Way Out of Iraq

chapter 1|2 pages

One President, Five Disasters

chapter |2 pages

New Orleans: A Modest Proposal

chapter |2 pages

The Country Left the Man

chapter |3 pages

Garbage 237

chapter |2 pages

John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908–2006

chapter |4 pages

The Heavy Burden of Wealth

chapter |3 pages

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

chapter |3 pages

Iraqonomics

chapter |2 pages

How to Become a Friend of the Next President 251

chapter |3 pages

America’s Suicide Pact with George W. Bush

chapter |3 pages

Poor People

chapter |3 pages

The New New Deal

chapter |5 pages

A Sick Society 265

chapter |2 pages

Hard Times

chapter |1 pages

Racism and Polite Conversation

chapter |2 pages

Super-Bubble

chapter |2 pages

The Case for Government

chapter |3 pages

Barack Obama and the Revolution of November 4, 2008

chapter |6 pages

What Keynes Knew

chapter |2 pages

Postscript on the G20 Summit: What Members Can Learn from the WPA

chapter |5 pages

Recovery?

chapter |3 pages

Camp Runamuck

chapter |3 pages

Dissatisfaction Guaranteed: An Account of Two Bubbles

chapter |3 pages

Obama’s Failures

chapter |6 pages

The Freefall That Isn’t Free

chapter |3 pages

Tea Party Politics

chapter |3 pages

The Futility of Force

chapter |17 pages

The Crisis of Capitalism

chapter |7 pages

The Failure of Capitalism 333

chapter |4 pages

Big Money

chapter |7 pages

Violent Nation

chapter |2 pages

The Poorest Rich Country in the World: Address to the Graduating Class of 2011

chapter |4 pages

Ice-T and the Pathology of Poverty

chapter |5 pages

China and the Future of the World

chapter |2 pages

The First Blossoms and Thorns of the Arab Spring