The United States in the Global Economy: Challenges and Policy ChoicesWith distressing regularity we are reminded that the engine that drives our economy can malfunction. The United States in the Global Economy sets out to explore the factors that help explain how the emerging global economy affects domestic economic health and defines a number of policy choices available to the US as it attempts to cope with a rapidly changing world. |
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... federal government's taxing and spending powers to raise or lower aggregate ( total ) demand for goods and services , so as to smooth the ups and downs of the business cycle . If the government raises ( income ) taxes , consumer ...
... federal government's taxing and spending powers to raise or lower aggregate ( total ) demand for goods and services , so as to smooth the ups and downs of the business cycle . If the government raises ( income ) taxes , consumer ...
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... government stimulate the development of new technologies and sunrise industries , many students of industrial ... federal government should " tailor and co- ordinate the broad range of government programs in order to ensure that they ...
... government stimulate the development of new technologies and sunrise industries , many students of industrial ... federal government should " tailor and co- ordinate the broad range of government programs in order to ensure that they ...
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... national and state governments . Richard Knight claims that cities are the primary sources of wealth and economic growth and therefore de- serve support from state and federal governments . Yet it is up to the cities themselves to ...
... national and state governments . Richard Knight claims that cities are the primary sources of wealth and economic growth and therefore de- serve support from state and federal governments . Yet it is up to the cities themselves to ...
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Workforce Education and Labor Relations Policy | 6 |
An Age of Prosperity | 13 |
Demise of the Bretton Woods Monetary System | 20 |
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