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6) Economic crisis and economic thought: alternative theoretical perspectives on the economic crisis
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Across the country, a level of unaffordable housing that once seemed unique to global cities like New York and San Francisco has become the norm, with nearly a third of all US households considered housing cost burdened. This situation has been abetted by the direct actions of developers, politicians, and existing homeowners who have sought to drive up the cost of housing. But it's mostly happened due to a society-wide refusal to see housing as anything...
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Turkey is going through possibly the most turbulent period in its history, with major consequences both nationally and internationally. The country today looks dramatically different from the Republic founded by Ataturk in 1923 on values including republicanism and laicism. The pace of change has been rapid and fundamental, with core interlinked changes in ruling institutions, political culture, political economy, and society. Divided into six main...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
How the antitax fringe went mainstream--and now threatens America's future! The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards--and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared prosperity. Then in 1978 California enacted Proposition 13, a property tax cap that Ronald Reagan hailed as a "second American Revolution," setting off an antitax, antigovernment wave that has...