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America in Decline
About this book
"This collection gathers 91 essays that appeared in the pages of Challenge from 1973 through 2011."
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Index
Italic page references indicate charts and graphs.
A Man Without a Country (Vonnegut), 325
Absolutism, 356
Adam Smith in His Time and Ours (Muller), 167–171
Advising
backward art of, 94–96
Carter, 90–93
Ford, 63–65
graduates of 2011, 344–345
interference versus guidance and, 74
president and Congress, 90–93
Advisory Committee on National Growth Policy Processes, 51, 90–93
Affirmative action, 177, 179–180
Affluent Society, The (Galbraith), 237
Afghanistan wars, 228, 248, 295–296, 307–308, 339–340
AFL-CIO, 78–79, 157, 177–178
African Americans, 178–180, 267, 274, 319, 324
Aftershock (Reich), 326–332
Against the Storm (Myrdal), 21–23
Age of Extremes, The (Hobsbawm), 181–187
Aggregate supply and demand, 19, 74, 311
Agha-Soltan, Neda, 355
Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), 144, 310
AIG, 291–292
Al Qaeda, 228–229, 246–247, 341
Al-Assad, Bashar, 355
Al-Khateeb, Hamza Ali, 355
Alaska purchase, 244
Albright, Madeleine, 340
Alexander, Michelle, 319
America Against the World (Kohut and Stokes), 246
America Needs a Raise (Sweeney), 177–178
American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 21
American Federation of Labor, 310
American Liberty League, 311
American Recovery and Reinvestment Ac...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Dates, Comments, and Presidents
- Advice on Reading This Book
- Planning Versus Stagflation, 1973–1979
- Back to Laissez Faire, 1988–1999
- Further Down the Downward Spiral, 2005–2011
- Index
- About the Author