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Economics for a Civilized Society

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Greg Davidson

    1. Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA

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  2. Paul Davidson

    1. University of Tennessee, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. In Pursuit of Civilization

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Demise of Liberal Economics and the Emergence of Conservativism

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 25-34

  4. The Political Economy of Civilization

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 35-59

  5. What’s Wrong with Economists?

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 60-78

  6. The Entrepreneurial Market System vs. State Socialism

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 79-83

  7. Why Taxpayers Pay their Taxes

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 84-106

  8. The Basic Problem of an Entrepreneurial System: Unemployment

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 107-133

  9. Unemployment Develops because Money doesn’t Grow on Trees

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 134-151

  10. Fighting Inflation: Controlling the Money Supply vs. Buffers and Tips

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 152-178

  11. Policy for a Civilized Global Economy: Whose International Debt and Currency Crisis is it Anyway?

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 179-209

  12. A Final Summing Up

    • Greg Davidson, Paul Davidson
    Pages 210-219

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 220-229
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Economics for a Civilized Society incorporates both self-interest and civic value motivations to provide an understanding of how our economic system works and how we can develop economic policies that assures a prosperous and civil society. Conventional economics policies involving inflation, the money supply, unemployment, international trade and payments, require that some people suffer so that others thrive in a zero sum game context. Civilized economic policies will employ all of society's resources to work for the betterment of both individuals, families, and the community. From taxes to international trade, the Davidsons show how to surmount today's seemingly intractable economic problems with civilized programmes.

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'This remarkably informative, wide-reaching book is the civilized product of two civilized authors.' - John Kenneth Galbraith

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  • Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA

    Greg Davidson

  • University of Tennessee, USA

    Paul Davidson

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