Falling Behind

Author : Robert Frank
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520957435

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With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditure cascades" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class. Writing in lively prose for a general audience, Frank employs up-to-date economic data and examples drawn from everyday life to shed light on reigning models of consumer behavior. He also suggests reforms that could mitigate the costs of inequality. Falling Behind compels us to rethink how and why we live our economic lives the way we do.

Author : Michael S. Teitelbaum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781400850143

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Falling Behind? by Michael S. Teitelbaum Pdf

How the fear of a shortage in American science talent fuels cycles in the technical labor market Is the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent? Are U.S. employers facing shortages of the skilled workers that they need to compete in a globalized world? Such claims from some employers and educators have been widely embraced by mainstream media and political leaders, and have figured prominently in recent policy debates about education, federal expenditures, tax policy, and immigration. Falling Behind? offers careful examinations of the existing evidence and of its use by those involved in these debates. These concerns are by no means a recent phenomenon. Examining historical precedent, Michael Teitelbaum highlights five episodes of alarm about "falling behind" that go back nearly seventy years to the end of World War II. In each of these episodes the political system responded by rapidly expanding the supply of scientists and engineers, but only a few years later political enthusiasm or economic demand waned. Booms turned to busts, leaving many of those who had been encouraged to pursue science and engineering careers facing disheartening career prospects. Their experiences deterred younger and equally talented students from following in their footsteps—thereby sowing the seeds of the next cycle of alarm, boom, and bust. Falling Behind? examines these repeated cycles up to the present, shedding new light on the adequacy of the science and engineering workforce for the current and future needs of the United States.

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199709270

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In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and the debate remains a hot one. In Falling Behind, Francis Fukuyama gathers together some of the world's leading scholars on the subject to explain the nature of the gap and how it came to be. Tracing the histories of development over the past four hundred years and focusing in particular on the policies of the last fifty years, the contributors conclude that while many factors are important, economic policies and political systems are at the root of the divide. While the gap is deeply rooted in history, there have been times when it closed a bit as a consequence of policies chosen in places ranging from Chile to Argentina. Bringing to light these policy success stories, Fukuyama and the contributors offer a way forward for Latin American nations and improve their prospects for economic growth and stable political development. Given that so many attribute the gap to either vast cultural differences or the consequences of U.S. economic domination, Falling Behind is sure to stir debate. And, given the pressing importance of the subject in light of economic globalization and the immigration debate, its expansive, in-depth portrait of the hemisphere's development will be a welcome intervention in the conversation.

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199830992

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Annotation In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away. In 'Falling Behind', Francis Fukuyama gathers together some of the world's leading scholars on the subject to explain the nature of the gap and how it came to be.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Income
ISBN : CORNELL:31924062240944

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Falling Behind by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee Pdf

Author : David A. Dyker
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781860944345

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Catching Up and Falling Behind by David A. Dyker Pdf

In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition from autocratic ?real socialism? to a capitalism that is sometimes democratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economic dimension of transformation, but the author sets the economic drama firmly within a political economy framework and a historical perspective. Trends in key economic variables are analysed against the background of the struggle between different social and political groups for power and command over resources. While the book pays due attention to topical issues like EU enlargement, the underlying perspective is a long-term one. Transition is viewed not as a set of once-and-for-all institutional changes or a process of short-term stabilisation, but as a historic opportunity to solve the inherited problem of poverty and underdevelopment in Central-East Europe and the former Soviet Union. The book ends with a critical assessment of how economics, as a discipline, has coped with the challenge of that historic opportunity.

Author : Open Media Research Institute
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1563249251

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Forging Ahead, Falling Behind by Open Media Research Institute Pdf

This second annual survey by the Open Media Research Institute presents some 100 contributions on political developments in the 27 countries of the former socialist bloc. Sections on individual countries include a map, key statistics, brief discussions of domestic and foreign policy issues, excerpts from important documents, and profiles of major personalities. Some contributors provide general articles on regional economic developments and the processes involved with building democratic institutions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Richard Record,Praveen Kumar,Priscilla Kandoole
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464811951

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From Falling Behind to Catching Up by Richard Record,Praveen Kumar,Priscilla Kandoole Pdf

Despite decades of development efforts supported by significant amounts of foreign aid, Malawi has experienced weak and volatile economic growth performance over a sustained period of time. Malawi’s growth remains an outlier even compared to its geographically and demographically similar peers. Moreover, growth has been distributed unequally, with little impact on poverty. Per capita income has improved only minimally in the 50 years since independence, and Malawi now has one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world. From Falling Behind to Catching Up aims to improve readers’ understanding of the puzzle of Malawi’s development performance and identify ways for the country to achieve robust growth and stay on a stable growth path that helps the poor. The book places a strong emphasis on assessing Malawi’s growth experience since independence from a comparative international perspective. It seeks to benchmark Malawian outcomes on growth, structural change, and transformation against peers and explores possible reasons for divergence from international trends. The book also puts deeper drivers of economic growth at the center of the discussion, looking in particular at the institutions and policies that may have affected Malawi’s growth outcomes and ones that could help Malawi avoid macroeconomic instability in the future. This book first begins by discussing Malawi’s macroeconomic situation and challenges in fiscal management, reviewing and drawing lessons from the instability, slippages, and shocks Malawi has experienced since independence. Second, given how critical the agricultural sector is to poverty reduction in Malawi, the overview explores the current state of agricultural markets. Third, looking at the factors that may constrain higher growth in the future, challenges in private sector development and job creation are discussed. Finally, building on the analysis of challenges, the book concludes with a summary of policy recommendations aimed at helping Malawi begin catching up with its peers.

Author : Nicholas Crafts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108424400

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Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back by Nicholas Crafts Pdf

Highlights the interactions between institutions and policy choices, as well as the importance of historical constraints on Britain's relative economic decline.

Author : Michael S. Teitelbaum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691154664

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Falling Behind? by Michael S. Teitelbaum Pdf

How the fear of a shortage in American science talent fuels cycles in the technical labor market Is the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent? Are U.S. employers facing shortages of the skilled workers that they need to compete in a globalized world? Such claims from some employers and educators have been widely embraced by mainstream media and political leaders, and have figured prominently in recent policy debates about education, federal expenditures, tax policy, and immigration. Falling Behind? offers careful examinations of the existing evidence and of its use by those involved in these debates. These concerns are by no means a recent phenomenon. Examining historical precedent, Michael Teitelbaum highlights five episodes of alarm about "falling behind" that go back nearly seventy years to the end of World War II. In each of these episodes the political system responded by rapidly expanding the supply of scientists and engineers, but only a few years later political enthusiasm or economic demand waned. Booms turned to busts, leaving many of those who had been encouraged to pursue science and engineering careers facing disheartening career prospects. Their experiences deterred younger and equally talented students from following in their footsteps—thereby sowing the seeds of the next cycle of alarm, boom, and bust. Falling Behind? examines these repeated cycles up to the present, shedding new light on the adequacy of the science and engineering workforce for the current and future needs of the United States.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264250246

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PISA Low-Performing Students Why They Fall Behind and How To Help Them Succeed by OECD Pdf

There is no country or economy participating in PISA 2012 that can claim that all of its 15-year-old students have achieved a baseline level of proficiency in mathematics, reading and science. Poor performance at school has long-term consequences, both for the individual and for society as a ...

Author : Ravi Kulatunga
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781035800438

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Falling Behind by Ravi Kulatunga Pdf

Do you really know the person you have committed the rest of your life to? Are they the same person you married, once knew, or have you ignored those subtle changes and made compromises just for the sake of happily ever after? Perhaps it is you who has changed, and now everything you once cherished, once hoped for, does not bind you in the way that it once did. Against the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean, Beth, and her husband Jake, travel to Samoa to reset and mend a broken marriage. But the suspicion of an affair, an addiction, a crime, or the thought that he just does not want to be around her anymore, travel with her to this island paradise. How does it feel to lose a child? Your children are not supposed to leave you before you leave them. How do you live in a vacuum, unable to breathe, when sleep and inevitable death are the only reprieve? And then, what happens when you are responsible for their death? An old man and women, isolated from the rest of the world, abandoned by their families and neighbours, grapple with grief. Falling Behind is a collection of six short stories that explores the character of grief and its manifestation in people and how these very same people attempt to ride it out and hope, at the same time, for it to end. As with Leaving Behind, each story bears an unexpected twist.

Author : SHARON. DUGGAL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910422614

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SHOULD WE FALL BEHIND. by SHARON. DUGGAL Pdf

Author : Bruce E. Arrington
Publisher : Pipe Dream Books
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pay Up Or Fall Behind by Bruce E. Arrington Pdf

Bernard’s parents are taken, likely by those who want his blood. In order to play and win this deadly game, Bernard will have to raise millions of dollars in a short period of time. Hopefully it won’t come too late.

Author : Thomas L. Friedman,Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429995115

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That Used to Be Us by Thomas L. Friedman,Michael Mandelbaum Pdf

America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, offer both a wake-up call and a call to collective action. They analyze the four challenges we face—globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and our pattern of excessive energy consumption—and spell out what we need to do now to sustain the American dream and preserve American power in the world. They explain how the end of the Cold War blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously, and how China's educational successes, industrial might, and technological prowess remind us of the ways in which "that used to be us." They explain how the paralysis of our political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible for us to carry out the policies the country urgently needs. And yet Friedman and Mandelbaum believe that the recovery of American greatness is within reach. They show how America's history, when properly understood, offers a five-part formula for prosperity that will enable us to cope successfully with the challenges we face. They offer vivid profiles of individuals who have not lost sight of the American habits of bold thought and dramatic action. They propose a clear way out of the trap into which the country has fallen, a way that includes the rediscovery of some of our most vital traditions and the creation of a new thirdparty movement to galvanize the country. That Used to Be Us is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.