Ask Dr. Dollar

Essays on Economic Power, Inequality, and Climate Change

By Arthur MacEwan

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Date of publication:
April 2023
ISBN:
978-1-939402-64-6
Pages:
209
Price:
$20.50


  • Introduction
  • Part One
    • Chapter 1—Economic Foundations
      • 1.1 Everything Is Connected to Everything Else
      • 1.2 Does U.S. Prosperity Depend on Exploitation?
      • 1.3 Will Artificial Intelligence Mean Massive Job Loss?
      • 1.4 Inequality, Power, and Ideology: Getting it Right About the Causes of the Current Economic Crisis
      • 1.5 Are We Stuck in a Period of Economic Stagnation?
      • 1.6 Why the Loss of Manufacturing Jobs?
    • Chapter 2—Policy Issues
      • 2.1 How Important Is Citizens United?
      • 2.2 Are Governments Economically Stupid in Failing to Suspend Patent Protections for Vaccines?
      • 2.3 Corporate Taxes: Less, Less, and Less
      • 2.4 Do Low Taxes on Dividends and Capital Gains Encourage Economic Growth?
      • 2.5 Is There Any Evidence for “Trickle-Down”?
      • 2.6 Why Do They Oppose More Stimulus?
      • 2.7 What Are the Effects of a $15 per Hour Minimum Wage?
      • 2.8 Eminent Domain and the Keystone XL Pipeline
    • Chapter 3—Inequality
      • 3.1 Power, Wages, and Inequality: All in a Government Report!
      • 3.2 Are Taxes the Best Way of Dealing with Inequality?
      • 3.3 Black-White Income Differences: What’s Happened?
      • 3.4 Unions and Economic Performance
      • 3.5 Why CEO Salaries Skyrocket
      • 3.6 What’s Wrong with Inequality?
    • Chapter 4—The Global Economy
      • 4.1 What Would a Progressive Trade Policy Look Like?
      • 4.2 Is It Oil?: The Issue Revisited
      • 4.3 Do Trade Agreements Foreclose Progressive Policy?
      • 4.4 Does Globalization Inevitably Lead to Low Wages and Job Loss?
      • 4.5 Local, or Far Away?
      • 4.6 Puerto Rico’s Colonial Economy
      • 4.7 Neoliberalism and Infant Mortality
      • 4.8 Who Benefited from Growth in East Asia?
    • Chapter 5—The Environment and Climate Change
      • 5.1 Growth, Growth, Growth: What Will Happen?
      • 5.2 Is Economic Growth Environmentally Sustainable?
      • 5.3 Climate Change, Social Justice, and the Green New Deal
      • 5.4 Is a Rapid Green-Energy Switch Prohibitively Costly?
      • 5.5 Reducing Greenhouse Gases
      • 5.6 Jobs vs. Environment?
    • Chapter 6—Finance
      • 6.1 Financialization and Inequality
      • 6.2 The Greed Fallacy
      • 6.3 Is “Short-Selling” Bad for the Economy?
      • 6.4 Stock Buybacks: Any Positive Outcome?
      • 6.5 The Fed and the “International Banking Conspiracy”
    • Chapter 7—Education
      • 7.1 Education: Not Just “Human Capital”
      • 7.2 Why Is Student Debt Cancelation Such a Big Deal?
      • 7.3 Has Neoliberalism Underfunded Schools?
  • Part Two
    • Chapter 8—Five Essays on Equality, Democracy, and Globalization
      • 8.1 An End in Itself and a Means to Good Ends: Why Income Equality Is Important
      • 8.2 Neoliberalism and Democracy
      • 8.3 The Wealth-Power Connection
      • 8.4 Property: Who Has a Right to What and Why?
      • 8.5 What Is Globalization?
  • About the Author