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End of Capitalism
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ISBN10: 1591027179
ISBN13: 9781591027171
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: Sep 1 2011
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.77
Height: 1.32 Width: 6.41 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781591027171
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: Sep 1 2011
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.77
Height: 1.32 Width: 6.41 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
US capitalism has long been ranked first among nations in production, jobs, wealth, power, and individual freedom. Is this level of preeminence likely to continue? In this candid, sobering assessment of our current fiscal maladies, economist Robert H. Parks explains why he predicts capitalism is now rushing to its demise.
A strong opponent of the supply-side, trickle-down economics that has been in vogue under conservative presidents, Parks argues that bottom-up stimulus and big government spending still have an important role to play in bringing greater prosperity to all US citizens. Citing the stellar examples of the financing of World War II, the use of fiscal and monetary tools to end the Great Depression, social security, and the G.I. Bill, Parks advocates public works programs to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, improve our public school system, and other vital projects. To critics who object that deficit financing would be inflationary, he counters that the present inadequate system is already producing severe oil and food price inflation, even as house prices continue to plunge.
Among the other urgent problems that the federal government must tackle, Parks addresses the need to curb societal violence and the murder rate through gun control, the worldwide threat from nuclear proliferation through government's leadership in promoting disarmament measures, corruption of government by business through influence-peddling, environmental protection, and, most of all, the military, industrial, and big oil complex. Parks identifies energy cartels and the armament industry as the dangerous and secret links of major industries to government officials, corporate executives, and military commanders. He asserts that the loosely regulated manufacture of weapons together with the virtual monopoly over oil production and gas prices constitutes the greatest threat to the welfare, not only of capitalism, but also of global society in the future.
This stern jeremiad from an experienced economics forecaster, who correctly predicted the mini-depression of 1981-82, is a call for drastic change in our national agenda and policy making.
Among the other urgent problems that the federal government must tackle, Parks addresses the need to curb societal violence and the murder rate through gun control, the worldwide threat from nuclear proliferation through government's leadership in promoting disarmament measures, corruption of government by business through influence-peddling, environmental protection, and, most of all, the military, industrial, and big oil complex. Parks identifies energy cartels and the armament industry as the dangerous and secret links of major industries to government officials, corporate executives, and military commanders. He asserts that the loosely regulated manufacture of weapons together with the virtual monopoly over oil production and gas prices constitutes the greatest threat to the welfare, not only of capitalism, but also of global society in the future.
This stern jeremiad from an experienced economics forecaster, who correctly predicted the mini-depression of 1981-82, is a call for drastic change in our national agenda and policy making.
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