All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (BK Currents (Paperback))

Hotel Resource Book Store 

 Store Home / Books / All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (BK Currents (Paperback))

Hotel Industry Books 

All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (BK Currents (Paperback))
by Jared Bernstein
from Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Short and Sweet
  This is a nice, compact discussion of general economic US policy, written in 2006 but given the events of 2008 is definitely still worth picking up. Obviously, this has a strong political slant, and with 130 pages or so, there are a lot of this left unsaid, but for a short discussion of competing economic philosophies, it's great. It is a bit refreshing hearing a different point of view from mainline republican/democratic views, even if I disagree with some of it. The author argues that the Apollo Alliance... more info

• Intended to be more philosophical than detailed
  A good book to examine a contrasting philosophy to the "rugged individualist" ideals. He does get into data and graphs, from a high level, but admits that there is much more detail to be explained and worked out to put these plans in action. The book makes a case for sharing risk, as a nation, in areas like health-care, helping those hurt by globalization by putting the excess labor to good use through smart government programs (infrastructure, energy independence)and making sure everyones wages rise as our... more info

• The Three Musketeers Credo's Answer To Capitalism Is not WITT, But SOS: Same Old Socialism
  The irony of the ambulance chasing, $800 coifed, Senator John Edwards's cover endorsement for Bernstein's book could only be lost on hard core Liberals. Edward's fortune was amassed through jury awards of lawsuits against doctors. A significant contributing factor to the high cost of health care in the U.S. This sort of screaming hypocrisy confronting the reader before they even open the book does not bode well for Bernstein's arguments or his intellectual honesty.
  During an exchange between Stephen... more info

• Socialism thorugh and through
  If you think personal responsibility and limited government is a good thing then this book will only upset you. I watch him on Kudlow and company debate Steve Moore and lose time and time again, but he seemed like a smart guy. In order to make an argument you must know the other side. I was very upset because although i disagree with everything in this book, there were no statistics to back up any of his points. Very few charts; very few analytical arguments; just a bunch of pandering to the liberal left... more info

Similar Products:

Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries) by Jared Bernstein (Hardcover) - Usually ships in 24 hours

The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich... by Dean Baker (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the... by Jacob S. Hacker (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy by Michael T. Klare (Hardcover) - Usually ships in 24 hours