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An Outline of the
American Economy

Part 1
Introduction

Part 2
How the U.S. Economy Works

Part 3
A Historical Perspective

Part 4
From Small Business to Corporation

Part 5
Stocks, Commodities and Markets

Part 6
The Role of Government

Part 7
Monitary and Fiscal Policy

Part 8
The Changing Face of Agriculture

Part 9
Labor: the Trade Unions' Role

Part 10
Foreign Trade and Global Economic Policies

Part 11
Afterword

Part 12
Readings

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PART 12

Brief Reading List on the American Economy


AREEDA, PHILLIP and LOUIS KAPLOW
Antitrust Analysis: Problems, Text, Cases, 4th ed. Little, Brown, 1988

BHAGWATI, JAGDISH
The World Trading System at Risk, Princeton University Press, 1991

BROADUS, ALFRED
A Primer on the FED, Public Services Office, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, VA, 1988

BRUCHEY, STUART
Enterprise: The Dynamic Economy of A Free People, Harvard University Press, 1990

BRUYN, SEVERYN T.
A Future for the American Economy: The Social Market, Stanford University Press, 1991

COCHRAN, THOMAS C.
Business in American Life: A History, McGraw-Hill, 1974

CYERT, RICHARD M. and DAVID M. MOWERY, eds.
Technology and Employment: Innovation and Growth in the U.S. Economy, National Academy Press, 1987

DERTHICK, MARTHA and PAUL J. QUIRK
The Politics of Deregulation, Brookings Institution, 1985

DERTOUZOS, MICHAEL L. et al
Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge, MIT Press, 1989

DOERINGER, PETER B., ed.
Turbulence in the American Workplace, Oxford University Press, 1991

DONAHUE, JOHN D.
The Privatization Decision: Public Ends, Private Means, Basic Books, 1989

EBELING, WALTER
The Fruited Plain: The Story of American Agriculture, University of California Press, 1979

FILIPPELLI, RONALD L., ed.
Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia, Garland, 1990

FRIEDBERGER, MARK
Farm Families and Change in Twentieth-Century America, University Press of Kentucky, 1988

GALAMBOS, LOUIS and JOSEPH PRATT
The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: U.S. Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century, Basic Books, 1989

GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH
The New Industrial State, 4th ed. Houghton Mifflin, 1985

GILL, WILLIAM J.
Trade Wars Against America: A History of United States Trade and Monetary Policy, Greenwood, 1990

HECKSCHER, CHARLES
The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation, Basic Books, 1988

HEILBRONER, ROBERT and PETER BERNSTEIN
The Debt and the Deficit: False Alarms, Real Possibilities, Norton, 1989

KRUGMAN, PAUL
The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990's, MIT Press, 1990

KUTTNER, ROBERT
The End of Laissez-Faire: American Economic Policy After the Cold War, Random House, 1991

LAWRENCE, ROBERT Z. and CHARLES L. SCHULTZE, eds.
An American Trade Strategy: Options for the 1990's, Brookings Institution, 1990

LENZ, ALLEN J.
Beyond Blue Economic Horizons: U.S. Trade Performance and International Competitiveness in the 1990s, Greenwood, 1990

LITTLE, JEFFREY B. and LUCIEN RHODES
Understanding Wall Street, 3rd ed., TAB Books, 1991

PORTER, GLENN
Encyclopedia of American Economic History, 3 vols., Macmillan, 1980

SCHMANDT, JURGEN and ROBERT WILSON, eds.
Growth Policy in the Age of High Technology: The Role of Regions and States, Unwin Hyman, 1990

SCHOTTER, ANDREW
Free Market Economics: A Critical Appraisal, 2nd ed., Basil Blackwell, 1990

SEXTON, JEAN D.
Silicon Valley: Inventing the Future, Windsor Publications, 1991

SPULBER, NICHOLAS
Managing the American Economy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, Indiana University Press, 1989

U.S. OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
Competing Economies: America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991

WEIDENBAUM, MURRAY
Rendezvous with Reality: The American Economy After Reagan, Basic Books, 1988

An Outline of the American Economy