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3) Choose Florida for retirement: information for travel, retirement, investment, and affordable living
Series
Pub. Date
1999-
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this provocative, witty, and revealing polemic, Daniel Brook's The Trap argues that the exploding income gap-a product of the conservative ascendance-is systematically dismantling the American dream, as debt-laden, well-educated young people are torn between their passions and the pressure to earn six-figure incomes.
Rising education, housing, and health-care costs have made it virtually impossible for all but the corporate elite to enjoy what...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Examines the economic growth of the United States since the Civil War, arguing that the rate of growth between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated and that a number of issues are further stagnating the already slow rate of productivity growth.
"In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016,
Language
English
Description
There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana. Why? Most economists-from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to Thomas Piketty-say the Great Enrichment...
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