The Insatiable Machine
by Trevor Jackson · 15 Mar 2026 · 270pp · 104,133 words
many groups of people, and that history is at least as instructive as the history of the successful mechanisms of capital accumulation, industrialization, technology, and rising living standards. Living standards have risen immensely since the time of Luther, but not for the Taino and the Arawak, for the people of the Banda
Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
by Mark Skousen · 22 Dec 2006 · 330pp · 77,729 words
government restraint—important keys to economic growth. Adam Smith endorsed the virtues of thrift, capital investment, and labor-saving machinery as essential ingredients to promote rising living standards (326). In his chapter on the accumulation of capital (Chapter 3, Book II) in The Wealth of Nations, Smith emphasized saving and frugality as
Panderer to Power
by Frederick Sheehan · 21 Oct 2009 · 435pp · 127,403 words
reviewed the chairman’s campaign: Alan Greenspan began to push a reluctant Federal Reserve to embrace his New Economy vision of rapid productivity growth and rising living standards. . . . In October 1995, a group of supply managers from various industries visited the Fed to discuss the latest in high-efficiency “just-in-time
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
by Charles Wheelan · 18 Apr 2010 · 386pp · 122,595 words
two of them will say global warming and none will mention clean water. Yet inadequate access to safe drinking water—a problem easily cured by rising living standards—kills two million people a year and makes another half billion seriously ill. Is global warming a serious problem? Yes. Would it be your
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
by Angus Deaton · 15 Mar 2013 · 374pp · 114,660 words
, and many threats—climate change, political failures, epidemics, and wars—could bring it to an end. Indeed, there were many pre-modern escapes in which rising living standards were choked off by precisely such forces. We can and should celebrate the successes, but there is no basis for a thoughtless triumphalism. Economic
Social Democratic America
by Lane Kenworthy · 3 Jan 2014 · 283pp · 73,093 words
a solution? Government social programs. Social programs function as a safety net, a springboard, and an escalator: they provide economic security, enhance opportunity, and ensure rising living standards. Over the past century, we have gradually expanded the size and scope of such programs. Given recent economic and social shifts, we need to
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work hours. In other words, modern social democracy means a commitment to extensive use of government policy to promote economic security, expand opportunity, and ensure rising living standards for all. But it aims to do so while facilitating freedom, flexibility, and market dynamism. Freedom, flexibility, and market dynamism have long been hallmarks
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with a push from organized interest groups or the populace, will recognize the benefits of a larger government role in pursuing economic security, opportunity, and rising living standards and will attempt to move the country in that direction. Often they will fail. But sometimes they’ll succeed. Progress will be incremental, coming
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. The book offers an evidence-based case for the desirability and feasibility of an expanded government role in providing economic security, enhancing opportunity, and ensuring rising living standards in the United States. There are grounds for concern but also for optimism. The bad news is that economic and social shifts have made
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Fix It? AMERICA’S EXISTING INSTITUTIONS and policies aren’t doing well enough in providing economic security, in promoting capabilities and opportunity, and in ensuring rising living standards for households in the lower half. We can do better. In this chapter, I describe how. Happily, for the most part we aren’t
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of the great recession, it may struggle in the absence of a 1990s- or 2000s-style stock market or housing bubble to fuel consumer spending. Rising living standards in developing nations should help by boosting American exports, and government job creation can enhance domestic spending. But demand is a significant question mark
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Can Help I’ve outlined a number of new programs and some expansions of existing ones that would enhance economic security, expand opportunity, and ensure rising living standards for Americans. They include the following: • Universal health insurance • One year of paid parental leave • Universal early education • Increased Child Tax Credit • Sickness insurance
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it even less so? Keep in mind that the principal objectives of government social programs are to enhance economic security and opportunity and to ensure rising living standards. Redistribution of income is not the chief aim. And yet, in doing these things, social policy does achieve a good bit of redistribution. Let
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United Kingdom, don’t fit neatly into a single group. As I outline in chapter 3, we could improve economic security, expand opportunity, and ensure rising living standards for all by moving toward a social democratic policy approach. But if Esping-Andersen is correct, that requires shifting to a fundamentally different type
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. Yet none is likely to derail America’s slow but steady movement toward an expanded government role in improving economic security, enhancing opportunity, and ensuring rising living standards for all. Obstacle 1: Americans Don’t Want Big Government Compared to other rich nations, the United States has a relatively small government—particularly
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with respect to programs that provide economic security, enhance opportunity, and facilitate rising living standards. Many say this is because it’s what Americans want. More than our counterparts in other rich nations, we tend to believe that individual
The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters
by Diane Coyle · 21 Feb 2011 · 523pp · 111,615 words
or nurse. If these workers are paid more as the years go by—just like everyone else in the economy thanks to economic growth and rising living standards—the cost consumers must pay for their services will rise relative to other prices. Baumol wasn’t alone in noting this phenomenon—a number
Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
by Dietrich Vollrath · 6 Jan 2020 · 295pp · 90,821 words
large part, a consequence of the family decisions made by people thirty or forty years ago. And those decisions were informed by the success of rising living standards and innovation in contraception. Beyond demographics, increased living standards had another significant consequence for economic growth, which worked through our choices about the kinds
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everything about your health, the successes behind the growth slowdown do not tell you everything about society or the economy. But because it is ultimately rising living standards that lie behind the growth slowdown, we may not be able to—or even want to—reverse it. Would it be worth it to
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I believe are the crucial elements explaining fertility decline in the United States. The short answer is that the fertility decline is a reaction to rising living standards in a very broad sense. It is a symptom of success. Economists are often accused of turning everything into a cold, lifeless comparison of
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population aging due to smaller families accounted for 0.80 percentage points of the growth slowdown. Even with this lower estimate, the twin successes of rising living standards and women’s reproductive rights explain about two-thirds of the 1.25 percentage point drop in the growth rate of GDP per capita
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chalked up to the drop in the growth rate of human capital per person. The demographic shifts behind this represented a success for two reasons: rising living standards that affected choices toward fewer kids, as well as increased opportunities and reproductive rights for women, which allowed them to have more control over
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the changes embedded in that development are a success. The growth slowdown is a consequence—even if unintended—of choices we made across decades of rising living standards. Success, Not Perfection The claim that slow growth is an outcome of success does not mean that things cannot get better. Throughout the book
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
by Yascha Mounk · 15 Feb 2018 · 497pp · 123,778 words
least three fronts. First, we need to reform economic policy, both domestically and internationally, to temper inequality and live up to the promise of rapidly rising living standards. A more equitable distribution of economic growth, on this vision, is not just a question of distributive justice; it is a question of political
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright · 28 Dec 2010
, it is only after the famous Mayan collapse that archaeologists find evidence in Mayan culture of a “mercantile pragmatism,” featuring the mass production of pottery, rising living standards for commoners, and the apparent demise of a theocratic elite in favor of a merchant class.) The story of the Middle Ages is the
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