Rolling Back Government

Author : Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781596981720

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Rollback by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Pdf

Thought the last financial crisis was scary? Just wait…it’s going to get worse America is on the brink of financial collapse. Decades of political overpromising and underfunding have created a wave of debt that could swamp our already feeble economy. And the politicians’ favorite tricks—raising taxes, borrowing from foreign governments, and printing more money—will only make it worse. Only one thing might save us: Roll back the government. In Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. explains that we may still have a chance to avert total economic disaster—but only by completely changing our understanding of government. With bracing candor, he dissects just how the political class has nearly destroyed America’s economy. In Rollback, you’ll learn: Why practically everything you’ve been taught about government and the economy is wrong—the product of liberal pro–government propaganda How the Federal Reserve helps create crises and slows recovery Why big business is no ally in rolling back government and actually wants and needs big government intervention in the marketplace How current policies, if unchecked, will lead to the collapse of the dollar How government policies have driven the skyrocketing costs of health care Why retirement will be a pipe dream for the next generation How the coming collapse can be turned to your advantage—and the advantage of all who believe in liberty and limited government Thanks to decades of politicians playing kick the can down the road, we and our children are facing economic Armageddon. But this crisis could help us see government for what it really is—an institution that has seized our wealth and taught our children to honor it as the source of all progress. The good news is it’s not too late to roll back government—and the opportunity to do so is now.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Agricultural subsidies
ISBN : UCSD:31822019245000

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Extending Commodity Credit Act; Roll-back in Food Prices by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf

Author : Flinders, Matt,Wood, Matt
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447334583

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Tracing the political by Flinders, Matt,Wood, Matt Pdf

Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or ‘quangos’, and portrayed the associated issues, like monetary or drug policy, as technocratic or managerial. At the same time an increasing number of important political decisions are being removed from democratic public debate altogether, leading many commentators to argue that they are part of a ‘crisis of democracy’, marking the ‘end of politics’. Tracing the political uses a broad range of international case studies to chart the politicising and depoliticising dynamics that shape debates about the future of governance and the liberal democratic state. The book is part of the New perspectives in policy and politics series, and will be an important text for students of politics and policy, as well as researchers and policy makers.

Author : Seth G. Jones,James Dobbins,Daniel Byman,Christopher S. Chivvis,Ben Connable,Jeffrey Martini,Eric Robinson,Nathan Chandler
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833097569

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Rolling Back the Islamic State by Seth G. Jones,James Dobbins,Daniel Byman,Christopher S. Chivvis,Ben Connable,Jeffrey Martini,Eric Robinson,Nathan Chandler Pdf

This report assesses the threat the Islamic State poses to the United States and examines strategies to counter the group.

Author : Per Espen Stoknes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262361439

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Tomorrow's Economy by Per Espen Stoknes Pdf

How we can achieve healthy growth--more regenerative than destructive, restoring equity rather than exacerbating inequalities. In Tomorrow's Economy, Per Espen Stoknes reframes the hot-button issue of economic growth. Going beyond the usual dialectic of pro-growth versus anti-growth, Stoknes calls for healthy growth. Healthy economic growth is more regenerative than destructive, repairs problems rather than greenwashing them, and restores equity rather than exacerbating global inequalities. Stoknes--a psychologist, economist, climate strategy researcher, and green-tech entrepreneur--argues that we have the tools to achieve healthy growth, but our success depends on transformations in government practices and individual behavior. Stoknes provides a compass to guide us toward the mindset, mechanisms, and possibilities of healthy growth.

Author : Anthony Hogan,Michelle Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317687122

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Rural and Regional Futures by Anthony Hogan,Michelle Young Pdf

Agriculture, mining and related rural industries have been central to the development of Australia’s economy. This book details the role that the Australian Government has played in the making of rural and regional Australia, particularly since World War II. The book reviews these policies and evaluates them with regards the commitments undertaken by the Government to contribute towards vibrant, rural communities. Policy areas addressed include agriculture, water, education, welfare and population, natural resource management, resource extraction, Indigenous and affairs, localism, rural research and regional innovation, Youth Affairs and the devolution of regional governance. Overall two distinct policy strategies can be observed: one wherein the government saw its role as part of the entrepreneurial state and a sector wherein government has increasingly taken itself out of industry development, leaving this role to the market. Having considered these strategies and their impacts, the book concludes that policy over the past 40 years has not in fact contributed to a more vibrant, prosperous rural and regional Australia. Rural and Regional Futures concludes with several chapters looking to the future. One chapter explores what the role of the state can be within a social market economy while the final chapter gives consideration to the initial steps rural communities will need to take to begin the process of revitalisation. While these materials present as a case study of developments in Australia, the policy shift from the Government as entrepreneur to a focus on markets is an international one and as such, the insights offered by this book will have wide appeal.

Author : Jenny M. Lewis,Anne Tiernan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192527882

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The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics by Jenny M. Lewis,Anne Tiernan Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is a comprehensive collection that considers Australia's distinctive politics— both ancient and modern— at all levels and across many themes. It examines the factors that make Australian politics unique and interesting, while firmly placing these in the context of the nation's Indigenous and imported heritage and global engagement. The book presents an account of Australian politics that recognizes and celebrates its inherent diversity by taking a thematic approach in six parts. The first theme addresses Australia's unique inheritances, examining the development of its political culture in relation to the arrival of British colonists and their conflicts with First Nations peoples, as well as the resulting geopolitics. The second theme, improvization, focuses on Australia's political institutions and how they have evolved. Place-making is then considered to assess how geography, distance, Indigenous presence, and migration shape Australian politics. Recurrent dilemmas centres on a range of complex, political problems and their influence on contemporary political practice. Politics, policy, and public administration covers how Australia has been a world leader in some respects, and a laggard in others, when dealing with important policy challenges. The final theme, studying Australian politics, introduces some key areas in the study of Australian politics and identifies the strengths and shortcomings of the discipline. The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is an opportunity for others to consider the nation's unique politics from the perspective of leading and emerging scholars, and to gain a strong sense of its imperfections, its enduring challenges, and its strengths.

Author : Tony Thorne
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780141963990

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Shoot the Puppy by Tony Thorne Pdf

Are you a bobo or a wombat? Are you tempted by infobia or to kick dead whales up the beach? If your answer to any of these questions is 'What are you talking about?', then you definitely need a copy of Shoot the Puppy. Amusing, informative and newly updated for 2007, it guides the reader through the ever-growing heap of contemporary jargon from around the English-speaking world, showing where it comes from, what it means, and what it tells us about our contemporary world.

Author : Stephen P. Osborne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135173272

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The New Public Governance by Stephen P. Osborne Pdf

Despite predictions that 'new public management' would establish itself as the new paradigm of Public Administration and Management, recent academic research has highlighted concerns about the intra-organizational focus and limitations of this approach. This book represents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art of public management, examining and framing the debate in this important area. The New Public Governance? sets out to explore this emergent field of research and to present a framework with which to understand it. Divided into five parts, the book examines: Theoretical underpinnings of the concept of governance, especially competing perspectives from Europe and the US Governance of inter-organizational partnerships and contractual relationships Governance of policy networks Lessons learned and future directions Under the steely editorship of Stephen Osborne and with contributions from leading academics including Owen Hughes, John M. Bryson, Don Kettl, Guy Peters and Carsten Greve, this book will be of particular interest to researchers and students of public administration, public management, public policy and public services management.

Author : Christian F. Ostermann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503607637

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Between Containment and Rollback by Christian F. Ostermann Pdf

In the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formally divided since 1949,the United States prioritized the political, economic, and, eventually, military integration of the fledgling Federal Republic with the West. The extraordinary success story of forging this alliance has dominated our historical under-standing of the American-German relationship. Largely left out of the grand narrative of U.S.–German relations were most East Germans who found themselves caught under Soviet and then communist control by the post-1945 geo-political fallout of the war that Nazi Germany had launched. They were the ones who most dearly paid the price for the country's division. This book writes the East Germans—both leadership and general populace—back into that history as objects of American policy and as historical agents in their own right Based on recently declassified documents from American, Russian, and German archives, this book demonstrates that U.S. efforts from 1945 to 1953 went beyond building a prosperous democracy in western Germany and "containing" Soviet-Communist power to the east. Under the Truman and then the Eisenhower administrations, American policy also included efforts to undermine and "roll back" Soviet and German communist control in the eastern part of the country. This story sheds light on a dark-er side to the American Cold War in Germany: propaganda, covert operations, economic pressure, and psychological warfare. Christian F. Ostermann takes an international history approach, capturing Soviet and East German responses and actions, and drawing a rich and complex picture of the early East–West confrontation in the heart of Europe.

Author : Steven L. Emanuel
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781543827187

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Emanuel CrunchTime for Constitutional Law by Steven L. Emanuel Pdf

When it’s exam time you need the right information in the right format to study efficiently and effectively. Emanuel® CrunchTime is the perfect tool for exam studying. With flowcharts and capsule summaries of major points of law and critical issues, as well as exam tips for identifying common traps and pitfalls, sample exam and essay questions with model answers – you will be prepared for your next big test. Here's why you will need Emanuel® CrunchTime to help you ace your exams: Perfect for the visual learner: The flow charts walk you through a series of yes/no questions that can be used to analyze any question on the exam. Featured capsule summaries help you quickly review key concepts not just before the exam, but throughout the semester Exams Tips recap the most commonly tested issues and fact patterns.

Author : Peter Stuart McInnis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802084397

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Harnessing Labour Confrontation by Peter Stuart McInnis Pdf

A formative moment in Canadian history, the 1940s left as a legacy not only the welfare state but also the legal framework that has defined organized labour for five decades."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Clarence Tshitereke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135861933

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The Experience of Economic Redistribution by Clarence Tshitereke Pdf

This book provides an analysis of the country's political economy in transition. It documents the history of the gold mining industry's involvement in shaping the political landscape of South Africa, and shows the degree to which the political transition was induced to put in place a new mode of regulation for capital accumulation. In the process, the victims of apartheid have now become victims of democracy's neo-liberalism as the government is constrained from being developmental, interventionist and redistributive.

Author : Alan McPherson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118954003

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A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean by Alan McPherson Pdf

A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day. Engages in debates about the economic, military, political, and cultural motives that shaped U.S. interventions in Cuba, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, and elsewhere Deals with incidents that range from the taking of Florida to the Mexican War, the War of 1898, the Veracruz incident of 1914, the Bay of Pigs, and the 1989 invasion of Panama Features also the responses of Latin American countries to U.S. involvement Features unique coverage of 19th century interventions as well as 20th century incidents, and includes a series of helpful maps and illustrations

Author : Oliver Schmidtke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351762953

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Revival: The Third Way Transformation of Social Democracy (2002) by Oliver Schmidtke Pdf

This title was first published in 2002. This multi-faceted account of the transformation of social democracy in Europe provides a unique critical discussion of the normative claims and the key policy initiatives that characterize Third Way politics. Designed to cover a broad range of aspects, this text provides fresh understanding of the transformation of social democratic politics in a globalizing world. Including accounts of the changes in the socio-political environment in which the New Social Democracy operates, the socio-cultural roots of Third Way politics and the underlying political and ideological shift of the contemporary established left, this text offers comparative insights into national case studies and an interpretative framework for the transformation that this political force has undergone in recent years. The reader will benefit from this book’s expert and easily accessible multi-faceted approach to one of the key political issues in contemporary Western societies.