Subject: Economics
By B 266 pages | ISBN 978-1-93427-619-8
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In the early 1980s, the major arms of federal economic policy effectively cooperated to implement what came to be known as the supply-side revolution. Among those who fi rst developed supply-side economics, no one was more influential than the economist Arthur B. Laffer. Laffer Associates, the firm that Laffer founded […]
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By A 40 pages | ISBN 978-1931764-50-6 978-1931764-51-3
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In 2012, over 50 percent of those patronizing a casino were over 50 years of age. Have casinos become today’s senior center? Come with Amy Ziettlow in Seniors in Casino Land, as she travels through America’s casinos, eating at the buffets, playing the slots, and talking to as many seniors […]
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By I 56 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-41-4 978-1-931764-52-0
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Can the rules that worked for an America of small farms and town criers work for an America of sprawling suburbs and smartphones? Yes, conclude the researchers at the Institute for American Values, who put the rules that Benjamin Franklin described in his Way of Wealth (1758) to the twenty-first […]
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By I 56 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-44-5 978-1-931764-45-2
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Casino gambling is spreading into the mainstream of American life and unleashing a host of troubling problems: it is harming health, draining wealth from people in the lower ranks of the income distribution, and contributing to economic inequality. These are among the findings of Why Casinos Matter: Thirty-One Evidence-Based Propositions […]
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By D 352 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-42-1 978-1-931764-43-8
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“Now is the time to recover thrift as an ethic and revive it as a practice.”– David Blankenhorn, American Thrift: A Reader The Institute for American Values began its work on thrift-—the ethic of wise use—-in 2004, when they were invited to partner with the John Templeton Foundation in a […]
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By I 28 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-33-9
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The two resources contained in this document, the Thrift Quiz and Thrift Index, provide valuable information about the current vitality of thrift culture in America.
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By A 300 pages | ISBN 9781934276181
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Eureka! is a prescriptive book that provides an economic roadmap for the rehabilitation of California, a state whose health is important to the nation.
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By I 36 pages | ISBN 9781931764315
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Why Thrift Matters outlines twenty well-researched propositions for why thrift matters for families, neighborhoods, the economy, and the planet.
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By 35 pages | 60 minutes run time | ISBN 978-1-880595-24-4 978-1-880595-50-3
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This film tells the stories of three individuals: a farmer in rural Michigan, a banker in New York, and a refugee from China. Why do their stories matter?
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By 48 pages | 58 minutes run time | ISBN 978-1-880595-558 978-1-880595-565
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The Birth of Freedom examines freedom in the light of perennial observations and questions about the human condition.
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