America Beyond 2001
America Beyond 2001 | America’s Economy May Become Intensely Regulated
How will it end? Where does our postwar extravagance, our increasing propensity to live beyond our means, finally lead us? And how should we manage our affairs so as best to cope with whatever troubles lie ahead?
Economics isn’t really the dismal science as [historian] Thomas Carlyle suggested. More accurately, it has become the hopeful science. Its practitioners carry on their trade in the hope that through adroit economic management, prosperity can somehow be engendered and preserved. . . .
Fiscal stimulation assuredly has served from time to time to spur economic...
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- Introduction
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Chapter 1
- Chapter 1 Preface
- Technology Will Strengthen the Traditional Family
- The Traditional Family Will Be Less Prevalent
- A Vision of Revitalized Education
- A Vision of Declining Education
- Immigrants Will Strengthen America’s Future
- Immigrants Will Weaken America’s Future
- The Aging of America: Alternative Visions
- Ethics for the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
- Chapter 3 Preface
- The Global Economy Is Real
- The Global Economy Is Largely Myth
- America Needs an Industrial Policy
- America Does Not Need an Industrial Policy
- America’s Economy May Become Intensely Regulated
- Economic Scenarios: From Boom to Collapse
- Entitlement Programs Are Sustainable
- Entitlement Programs Are Not Sustainable
- Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
- Chapter 5 Preface
- Technology Can Secure America’s Future
- Technology Can Be Damaging
- Information Technology Is Revolutionary
- Information Technology Is Not Revolutionary
- Technology Rapidly Changes Society
- Technology Slowly Changes Society
- Information Technology Workers, 2010
- Information Technology Criminals, 2010
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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