These forty-three short essays, take a look at the Washington "ecomomics industry," the political uses of economics, Keynesian and supply-side theories, misconceptions over federal deficits, and balanced budgets

Washington Bedtime Stories: The Politics of Money and Jobs

Business & Money

Stein, Herbert

Economics

Free Pr

There is an enormous concern today about the Federal budget, and almost all of it begins and ends with the deficit as the problem. But as eminent economist Herbert Stein argues in Governing the $5 Trillion Economy, the solutions most often proposed are escapist. Freezes, across-the-board cuts, or constitutional amendents all fail to take into account the real needs of the nation and, worse yet, focus too narrowly on the Federal budget. Stein contends that it is not enough for the government to manage only the Federal budget. The government, in cooperation with private planners, must begin to manage the whole output of the nation, which currently runs at almost five trillion dollars. It is only when planners can make choices between allocating resources either from the public sector (the Federal budget) or the private sector (industry or individuals), Stein says, that those decisions that benefit the nation as a whole will be made. For instance, health care planners should be able to choose between appropriating Federal money for Medicare and mandating company-paid employee health care plans. This would allow the government to reduce expenditures while still meeting its goal of better health for all citizens. Governing the $5 Trillion Economy is not a partisan argument for a specific set of economic policies, but an insightful prescription for improving the policy process no matter what the aims of the government. Written by one of America's leading authorities on national economic policy, this trenchant volume will be required reading for planners in government and the private sector as well as anyone interested in the future of the American economy.

Governing the $5 Trillion Economy: A Twentieth Century Fund Essay

Oxford University Press

This study chronicles the revolution in fiscal policy that occurred in the United States between the administrations of Herbert Hoover and John F.Kennedy. Unforeseen by any economist or school of economics, this period saw the doctrine of balancing the budget give way to the principle of managing government expenditures and taxes to ensure stability and growth. The author vividly relates how the thinking and decisions of the leading participants interacted with changing conditions, objectives, and experience to produce this major change of policy. In addition to the complete text of the original 1969 edition, this volume includes a new introduction by the author covering the past 20 years.

The Fiscal Revolution in America

University of Chicago Press

An analysis of recent conservative economic theory centers on five major schools of thought, and compares the benefits and risks of each approach

Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (Touchstone Book)

Simon&Schuster

a) What recent smash hit movie secretly depicted fear of the female breast? b) Name some recent films that were preoccupied with castration anxiety? c) Would you be surprised to know that reliving our childhood Oedipal fixations helps us better to understand adult-themed films? You'll find the answers to these and many similarly intriguing questions in Double Feature: Discovering Our Hidden Fantasies in Film by Herbert Stein, M.D. Dr. Stein, a highly respected Freudian psychiatrist and passionate moviegoer, literally puts our favorite films on the couch and shares his confidential findings with us. In a book that could become a cult classic, he lays bare the truth about unconscious and subconscious themes running through popular culture with fresh, jolting, and often moving insights into some of the most popular films ever made, including Jurassic Park, Field of Dreams, Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense, and The Usual Suspects. However perceptive we may think ourselves, this book reveals how we unconsciously respond to deeply embedded archetypal themes in movies and enables us to re-experience films we love in a completely fresh way. Indeed, Double Feature makes our favorite films even more resonant and enables us to articulate even more deeply what it is we love about them. Dr. Stein helps us to personalize our experiences by describing his own emotional reactions to these movies. Many of the essays in his book have been published in the Bulletin of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. Stein has also published essays on film in the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Projections, a magazine put out by the Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film. Double Feature is both a stimulating and entertaining book. It will also enrich Blockbuster Video, because if you're like me, after you finish it you will want to rush out and rent these movies to see them all over again.

Double Feature

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd

An analysis of recent conservative economic theory centers on five major schools of thought, and compares the benefits and risks of each approach

Presidential economics: The making of economic policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and beyond (AEI studies)

Distributed by arrangement with National Book Network

This study chronicles the revolution in fiscal policy that occurred in the United States between the administrations of Herbert Hoover and John F.Kennedy. Unforeseen by any economist or school of economics, this period saw the doctrine of balancing the budget give way to the principle of managing government expenditures and taxes to ensure stability and growth.

The Fiscal Revolution in America (AEI Studies, 515)

AEI Press

Herbert Stein examines the events, policies, and personalities that have shaped our economy for a half century. After tracing the development of economic theory from the Keynesian revolution of the 1930s to the supply-side revolution of the 1980s, he offers a critique of Reagan's "economics of joy." In the new chapters in this edition, Stein brings his analysis up to date with commentary on both the Bush and Clinton approaches to the economy.

Presidential economics: The making of economic policy from Roosevelt to Clinton

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Herbert Stein examines the events, policies, and personalities that have shaped our economy for a half century. After tracing the development of economic theory from the Keynesian revolution of the 1930s to the supply-side revolution of the 1980s, he offers a critique of Reagan's "economics of joy." In the new chapters in this edition, Stein brings his analysis up to date with commentary on both the Bush and Clinton approaches to the economy.

Presidential Economics:: The Making of Economic Policy From Roosevelt to Clinton, 3rd Edition (Applications, 87)

Objective, readable, and witty, Herbert Stein resists being pigeon-holed as liberal or conservative, as a member of any of the "schools" that warp the vision of many economists. In On the Other Hand, he gives a fresh view, derived from fifty-six years of participating in and observing Washington economics, of the economic policy and economic talk of our time. He examines contemporary controversy over economic growth, poverty, employment, taxes, and deficits; discusses the role of presidents and their advisers in the formation of economic policy; and assesses the ideas of economists whose theories have influenced economic practice.

On the Other Hand... Essays on Economics, Economists, and Politics

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Washington Bedtime Stories: The Politics of Money and Jobs

Governing the $5 Trillion Economy: A Twentieth Century Fund Essay

The Fiscal Revolution in America

Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (Touchstone Book)

Double Feature

Presidential economics: The making of economic policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and beyond (AEI studies)

The Fiscal Revolution in America (AEI Studies, 515)

Presidential economics: The making of economic policy from Roosevelt to Clinton

Presidential Economics:: The Making of Economic Policy From Roosevelt to Clinton, 3rd Edition (Applications, 87)

On the Other Hand... Essays on Economics, Economists, and Politics