Peddling

Author : Paul R. Krugman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393312928
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peddling Prosperity written by Paul R. Krugman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-04-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past twenty years have been an era of economic disappointment in the U.S. They have also been a time of intense economic debate, as rival ideologies contend for policy influence. But strange things have happened to economic ideas on their way to power--they've been hijacked by policy entrepreneurs who offer easy answers to hard problems.

Author : Gary Dean Best
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780765802880
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peddling Panaceas written by Gary Dean Best and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Peddling Panaceas, Best introduces readers to three popular New Deal economists * Edward A. Rumely, Stuart Chase, and David Cushman Coyle - who not only influenced policy but also educated the American public about the Depression. Their views and influence help us understand the economic and political climate of the 1930s.

Author : Lawrie Reznek
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476622728
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peddling Mental Disorder written by Lawrie Reznek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry is a mess. Patients who urgently need help go untreated, while perfectly healthy people are over-diagnosed with serious mental disorders and receive unnecessary medical treatment. The roots of the problem are the vast pharmaceutical industry profits and a diagnostic system--the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)--vulnerable to exploitation. Drug companies have fostered the development of this system, pushing psychiatry to over-extend its domain so that more people can be diagnosed with mental disorders and treated with drugs. This book describes the steady expansion of the DSM--both the manual itself and its application--and the resulting over-medication of society. The author discusses revisions and additions to the DSM (now in its fifth edition) that have only deepened the epidemics of major depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, social anxiety disorder, attention deficit disorder and bipolar disorder.

Author : David Albright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439171592
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peddling Peril written by David Albright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “THE UNLEASHED POWER OF THE ATOM HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING SAVE OUR MODES OF THINKING, AND WE THUS DRIFT TOWARD UNPARALLELED CATASTROPHE.” —ALBERT EINSTEIN With the revelation of Iran’s secret uranium enrichment facilities, North Korea’s brazen testing of missiles and nuclear weapons, and nuclear-endowed Pakistan’s descent into instability, the urgency of the nuclear proliferation problem has never been greater. Based on his extensive experience in tracking the illicit nuclear trade as one of the world’s foremost proliferation experts, in Peddling Peril David Albright offers a harrowing narrative of the frighteningly large cracks through which nuclear weapons traffi ckers—such as Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan—continue to slip. Six years after the arrest of Khan, the networks he established continue to thrive, with black markets sprouting up across the globe. The dramatic takedown of the leader of the world’s largest and most perilous smuggling network was originally considered a model of savvy detection by intelligence and enforcement agencies, including the CIA and MI6. But, as Albright chronicles, the prosecutions of traffickers that were much anticipated have not come to pass, and Khan himself was released from house arrest in February 2009. Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea all use statesponsored smuggling networks that easily bypass export regulations and avoid detection. Albright illuminates how these networks have learned many ways to trick suppliers across the globe, including many in the United States, into selling them vital parts, and why, despite the fact that, since 2007, several dozen companies have been indicted—with some pleading guilty—for suspicion of participating in illicit trade, very few prosecutions have been achieved. Peddling Peril charts the dealings of several of these companies. Albright also reports on the hopeful story of the German company Leybold’s decision to become an industry watchdog, and shows how this story reveals just how effective corporate monitoring and government cooperation would be if more serious efforts were made. Concluding with a detailed plan for clamping down tightly on the illicit trade, Albright shows the way forward in the vital mission of freeing the world of this terrifying menace.

Author : Bruce D. Epperson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645623X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peddling Bicycles to America written by Bruce D. Epperson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This economic and technical history of the early American bicycle industry focuses on the crucial period from 1876 to the beginning of World War I. It looks particularly at the life and career of the industry's most significant personality during this era, Albert Augustus Pope. After becoming enamored with English high-wheeled bicycles during a visit to the Philadelphia World's Fair in 1876, Pope soon started paying Hartford, Connecticut's Weed Sewing Machine Company to make his own brand of high-wheeler, the "Columbia," the first to be manufactured in America in significant numbers. A decade later, Pope bought out that company, and ten years after that, Hartford's Park River was lined with five of Pope's factories. This book tells the story of the Pope Manufacturing Company's meteoric rise and fall and the growth of an industry around it.

Author : Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400888425
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peddling Protectionism written by Douglas A. Irwin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It is often associated with--and sometimes blamed for--the onset of the Great Depression, the collapse of world trade, and the global spread of protectionism in the 1930s. Even today, the ghosts of congressmen Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley haunt anyone arguing for higher trade barriers; almost single-handedly, they made protectionism an insult rather than a compliment. In Peddling Protectionism, Douglas Irwin provides the first comprehensive history of the causes and effects of this notorious measure, explaining why it largely deserves its reputation for combining bad politics and bad economics and harming the U.S. and world economies during the Depression. In four brief, clear chapters, Irwin presents an authoritative account of the politics behind Smoot-Hawley, its economic consequences, the foreign reaction it provoked, and its aftermath and legacy. Starting as a Republican ploy to win the farm vote in the 1928 election by increasing duties on agricultural imports, the tariff quickly grew into a logrolling, pork barrel free-for-all in which duties were increased all around, regardless of the interests of consumers and exporters. After Herbert Hoover signed the bill, U.S. imports fell sharply and other countries retaliated by increasing tariffs on American goods, leading U.S. exports to shrivel as well. While Smoot-Hawley was hardly responsible for the Great Depression, Irwin argues, it contributed to a decline in world trade and provoked discrimination against U.S. exports that lasted decades. Featuring a new preface by the author, Peddling Protectionism tells a fascinating story filled with valuable lessons for trade policy today.

Author : Alan Snel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949720525
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bicycle Man written by Alan Snel and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bicyclist/journalist Alan Snel decided to pack a lifetime of bicycle misadventures, crazy times and tender moments into a collection of bicycle stories thatspan nearly 40 years. Bicyclingcan be about giving you a ride to work, a front-row seat to see nature, a meditation session, a workout or a ride across the country. Alan has bicycled it all and tried it all, even trying to increase the profile of bicycling in Tampa Bay -- talk about a long uphill ride. This is Alan's love sonnet to bicycling in all its forms. Never stop pedaling.

Author : Michigan. State Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report written by Michigan. State Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michigan. State Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biennial Report ... written by Michigan. State Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michigan. State Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biennial Report for the Fiscal Years Ending... written by Michigan. State Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: