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Obama´s Economy: Recovery for the Few
Jack Rasmus
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Description for Obama´s Economy: Recovery for the Few
Paperback. Informed critical economist takes Obama to task for presiding over a failing and unequal US economy. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
Radical economist Jack Rasmus shows how the Obama administration failed to deliver on its promises of economic recovery and social justice and puts forward alternative proposals for how the administration could have realised these goals.
In the period of Obama’s presidency, corporate profits were up, and economic hardship was the bitter reality for millions of US citizens. Rasmus argues that the weakest economic recovery since 1947 was the direct result of the Obama administration's failure to take decisive action. Analysing deficit cutting, the fear of a global depression, tactical populism and austerity, this book is a clear ... Read more
Radical economist Jack Rasmus shows how the Obama administration failed to deliver on its promises of economic recovery and social justice and puts forward alternative proposals for how the administration could have realised these goals.
In the period of Obama’s presidency, corporate profits were up, and economic hardship was the bitter reality for millions of US citizens. Rasmus argues that the weakest economic recovery since 1947 was the direct result of the Obama administration's failure to take decisive action. Analysing deficit cutting, the fear of a global depression, tactical populism and austerity, this book is a clear ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745332185
SKU
V9780745332185
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About Jack Rasmus
Jack Rasmus is a Professor of Economics at St Marys College and Santa Clara University, both in California. He is author of Obama's Economy: Recovery for the Few (Pluto, 2012) and Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression (Pluto, 2010). He has been a business economist, market analyst and vice-president of the National Writers Union.
Reviews for Obama´s Economy: Recovery for the Few
'Everybody else talked of the Lehman crisis as a blip, but Rasmus got it right: his concept of 'epic recession' describes what happened, in America and in the Western world'
Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight Economics Editor, author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed and Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global 'Rasmus ... Read more
Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight Economics Editor, author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed and Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global 'Rasmus ... Read more