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Unbearable Cost

Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire

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  • © 2006

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  1. James K. Galbraith
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Table of contents (62 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 1-4

  3. About Bush

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Corporate Democracy; Civic Disrespect

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 7-9

    3. Lies, Dumb Lies, and Sample Statistics

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 10-11

    4. Defending Democrats … and Democracy

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 12-14

    5. Tracking Down the Corporate Crooks

      • Bill Black, James Galbraith
      Pages 15-17

    6. The Realities of Resistance

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 18-20

    7. Why Bush Likes a Bad Economy

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 21-25

    8. The No-Jobs President

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 26-31

    9. Bush’s Hail Mary

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 32-35

    10. The Plutocrats Go Wild

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 36-38

    11. Dissecting Cheney

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 39-42

    12. Waiting to Vote

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 43-44

    13. Abolish Election Day

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 45-50

    14. Democracy Inaction

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 51-53

    15. The Floodgates Have Opened

      • James K. Galbraith, Michael D. Intriligator
      Pages 54-56

  4. About War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. National Defense

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 59-61

    3. The Future Oil War

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 62-64
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About this book

This work contains James K. Galbraith's most influential recent writings on current affairs along with new commentary, and explores both the descent to disaster in Iraq and the ongoing transformation of the American economy under the steerage of Alan Greenspan.

Reviews

'Galbraith for the Twenty-first century! Prescient, lucid, elegant. Where others are lost groping in the shadows, James K. Galbraith sees the big picture. His writing is like a torch that guides us through the cave of the present into the light.' - Sidney Blumenthal, formerly Senior Advisor to President Clinton and author of The Clinton Wars

'The reason Jamie Galbraith is such an important writer is because he asks the right questions. You would be amazed at the number of people who pass for pundits or even sages who can't hit the backboard with a question, much less hit the net. That Galbraith knows the answers too strikes me less

impressive. He is after all, an economist and a political scientist and an

academic; he's supposed to know these things. He even did time in the

bowels of congress and so knows how it actually works. Galbraith's writing

is crisp, funny, and incisive. Krugman, move over, Galbraith is here.' -

Molly Ivins is a syndicated columnist, co-author of Bushwhacked: Life in

George Bush's America, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and

Sciences.

About the author

JAMES K. GALBRAITH holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, USA, and a Professorship in the Department of Government. He is Senior Scholar with the Levy Economics Institute and Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security, a global network of professional economists. He served as Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress in the early 1980s.

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