R 328.73 CON |
Congressional quarterly almanac 1998. Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, c1999. A guide Congress, featuring articles from "CQ Weekly," news magazine dating back to 1965 |
R 324.273 ENC |
The encyclopedia of the Republican Party; The encyclopedia of the Democratic Party. Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, 1997. |
330.9 SWA |
Taking sides : Clashing views on controversial economic issues. Guilford, CT. : The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc., 1984. |
330.09 GAL |
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908- The age of uncertainty. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Examines the ideas and philosophies of economists and social philosophers from Adam Smith to the present. |
330.973 GOR |
Gordon, John Steele. An empire of wealth : the epic history of American economic power. New York : HarperCollins, c2004. Examines the history and development of economic wealth and power in the United States and tells how the country overcame adversity, recession, and the Great Depression of the 1930s to become a dominate player on the world market. |
330.1 KRO |
Kronenwetter, Michael. Capitalism vs. socialism : economic policies of the USA and the USSR. New York : F. Watts, c1986. Discusses the history of capitalism and socialism, focusing on how these economic systems function in the United States and the Soviet Union today. |
330.097 WAR |
Warsh, David. Knowledge and the wealth of nations : a story of economic discovery. New York : Norton, c2006. The discipline -- "It tells you where to carve the joints" -- What is a model? How does it work? -- The invisible hand and the pin factory -- How the dismal science got its name -- The underground river -- Spillovers and other accommodations -- The Keynesian revolution and the modern movement -- "Mathematics is a language" -- When economics went high-tech -- The residual and its critics -- The infinite-dimensional spreadsheet -- Economists turn to rocket science, and "model" becomes a verb -- New departures -- "That's stupid!" -- In Hyde Park -- The U-turn-- The keyboard, the city, and the world -- Recombinations -- Crazy explanations -- At the ski lift --
"Endogenous technological change" -- Conjectures and refutations -- A short history of the cost of lighting -- The ultimate pin factory -- The invisible revolution -- Teaching economics. Examines the long-sought solution to the economic paradox of falling costs and chronicles the two-hundred-year struggle to solve the puzzle, discussing the roles of such figures as Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Robert Solow, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Lucas, and the man who did it, Paul Romer, who found that technological development and change must be internalized as a part of economic growth. |
329.023 WIT |
Witcover, Jules. Marathon : the pursuit of the Presidency, 1972-1976. New York : Viking Press, c1977. Examines the 1976 presidential campaign from its beginnings in 1972 through the election of Jimmie Carter. |