A faltering American dream
Subtitle: excessive accumulation of money and power through the federal elections market
By: Robert W. Merriam, Ph.D.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781480821187; 9781480821170; 9781480821163
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Economics; Fiscal policy; Economic conditions; Economic policy; Economic history
Description: The author clarifies how and why changes are happening to America's economy and its former world prominence. At the root of most of these problems, he identifies a fatal flaw in our governance structure, unanticipated by the framers of the constitution. This book concludes with an urgent call for a practical correction of this defect and a plea for the campaign rhetoric of the 2016 political candidates to express clearly the reasons why they advocate their policy positions on important economic issues.
Table of contents: title: Public subsidies for corporate operations; title: The increasing success of corporate America in avoiding taxes; title: Basic ideas that influence economic policies for Democrats and Republicans; title: The two political parties try different ways to stimulate the economy during recessionary downturns; title: The tight relationship between business and government in the global economy; title: Comparing Democratic and Republican economic policies between 1945 and 2009; title: Increasing costs and complexity of National governance; title: Government regulations in the operations of a free-market economy; title: Financial assets in the U.S. economy; title: Successes and dangers in U.S. megabank operations; title: The accumulation of most of America's financial assets by a small minority of Americans; title: The distribution of financial assets in the U.S. economy; title: The faltering American dream. The case for a better funded federal government; title: Big money in American political elections; title: A better way to elect politicians to public office; title: Summing up.