Building American Prosperity In The 21st Century

Addresses the opportunities & challenges involved in the greater opening of Asia Pacific markets for U.S. companies. Outlines a number of steps that could be taken to enhance American trade & investment relations with the Asia Pacific region. Presents observations, findings & recommendations on trade imbalance, investment, tariffs, private & public anti-competitive practices, anti-trust laws, & the importance of high technology to U.S. competitiveness. Charts, tables, graphs, & references. Appendix includes an overview of U.S. trade relations with the Asia Pacific region, 1980-1995. Also includes a 22-page report by the U.S. Nat. Comm. for Pacific Economic Coop., Beyond the Trade Bill: The Coming Pacific AdjustmentÓ (Jan. 1988).

Our government is crushingly expensive, failing at its basic functions, and unable to keep its promises. It does not work and it cannot continue as it is. The authors believe that America is poised to enter a new era of freedom and prosperity. This new world will bring immense productivity, rapid technological progress, greater scope for individual and family-scale autonomy, and a leaner and strictly limited government.

Have you suffered from the weakest thirty year period of growth since the Great Depression and workers getting the smallest share of the economic pie ever? Are you concerned the record number of people facing financial stress enables addictions and aggravates tensions between political parties, races and religions? Do you want to be part of the solution rather than the blame game? This myth-shaking, data-backed book maps the path to national prosperity. It exposes the lies that tricked voters to favor: stagnate wages, weak growth, asset bubbles that pop and unsustainable deficits. The book will encourage those creating great wealth. The takers, those wealthy who consume way more than they produce, will dread the fact based conclusions.If you are a worker do you want to double your pay over the next several years? If you are a business owner would you like the value of your business to grow twice as fast? There's a tax policy for that. It's the one that corresponded with economic growth above 5 percent for thirty-six years. Hint: it's the opposite of what coddled elites call pro growth tax policy, but is really a bait and switch that squeezes the middle class. The last thirty years the economy grew at 2.5 percent. When voters know better, we could do twice that. Three decades of studying what drives the economy and financial markets, building an economic data base and modeling what happens and when it happens may have made me an expert or perhaps I'm more like the young boy shouting, "The emperor has no clothes." What is obvious to someone who has really studied the data is not the message elites promote to the general public. The book will give you a clear understanding of how you can be a part of restoring national prosperity and enhancing your own. Find out how to: - Restore the incentive to work and double your income as a worker, - Grow your business twice as fast, - Understand tax policy beyond what you thought you were capable of, - See the wolf under the sheepskin, - Keep your retirement savings from disappearing in a popping financial bubble, - Solve the Federal budget/debt crisis, - Give the nation a stronger sense of community and - Give your children and grandchildren a bright future.Follow the advice in this book and together we can make the 21st century another American Century. What's stopping you from making your vote a powerful tool to restore the nation? Scroll to the top and click the "buy now" button.

What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits? The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson’s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, inspired debate and led to a new wave of research building on its arguments and conclusions. This substantially revised and re-written edition updates those arguments and considerably expands upon them. Jackson demonstrates that building a ‘post-growth’ economy is a precise, definable and meaningful task. Starting from clear first principles, he sets out the dimensions of that task: the nature of enterprise; the quality of our working lives; the structure of investment; and the role of the money supply. He shows how the economy of tomorrow may be transformed in ways that protect employment, facilitate social investment, reduce inequality and deliver both ecological and financial stability. Seven years after it was first published, Prosperity without Growth is no longer a radical narrative whispered by a marginal fringe, but an essential vision of social progress in a post-crisis world. Fulfilling that vision is simply the most urgent task of our times.

"Offers achievable strategies for revitalizing industrial areas and building upon the potential of overlooked resources of economic, physical, and cultural significance. Addresses such challenges as fostering entrepreneurship, reducing poverty and inequality, and augmenting the number of skilled professionals. Provides analysis of healthy economic development practices for public and private sectors"--Provided by publisher.