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| A Note on This Edition | |
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| The Central Economic Problem | |
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| Why Are We Still So Poor? | |
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| The Appeal of Science | |
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| Economic Arguments | |
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| The Rich | |
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| Are the Rich Necessary?-No | |
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| Are the Rich Necessary?-Yes | |
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| The Rich in a Democracy | |
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| Are the Rich Compatible with Democracy?-No | |
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| Are the Rich Compatible with Democracy?-yes | |
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| Profit-making | |
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| Are Private Profits Necessary?-No | |
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| Are Private Profits Necessary?-Yes | |
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| Are Private Profits Necessary?-No/Yes | |
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| Glaring Inequality | |
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| Are There Alternatives to the Profit System?-yes/No | |
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| Should We Accept This Degree of Inequality?-No/Yes | |
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| Greed | |
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| Does the Profit System Glorify Greed?-Yes | |
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| Does the Profit System Glorify Greed?-Yes, and a Good Thing | |
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| Does the Profit System Glorify Greed?-No | |
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| Government | |
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| Can Government Protect Us from the Excesses of the Profit System?-Yes | |
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| Can Government Protect Us from the Excesses of the Profit System?-No | |
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| Profit-making and Depressions | |
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| Does the Profit System Cause Depressions?-Yes/No | |
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| Central Banks | |
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| Can Central Banks Protect Us from Depressions and Lead the Economy?-Yes | |
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| Can Central Banks Protect Us from Depressions and Lead the Economy?-No | |
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| The Global Profit System | |
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| Does Global Free Trade Destroy Jobs?-Yes | |
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| Does Global Free Trade Destroy Jobs?-No | |
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| Four Economic Value Systems | |
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| Competing Economic Value Systems | |
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| Reconciling Opposing Viewpoints | |
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| Expanding the Nonprofit Sector | |
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| Appendices | |
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| What Is a "Fair" Price? | |
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| What Exactly Are Profits? | |
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| What Makes Prices Unstable? | |
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| The "Austrian" Theory of Economic Instability | |
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| Did the US Congress Trigger the Stock Market Bubble of the Late 1990s? | |
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| Other (Non-monetary) Theories of the Business Cycle | |
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| The US Federal Reserve System | |
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| Global Monetary Systems and Institutions | |
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| Summary Outline of Are the Rich Necessary? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |