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Scott: A Novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald by E. Ray Canterbery is a
fascinating insight into the life of one of the great American
writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald. From humble beginnings to fame and
alcoholism, through to his untimely death, Scott is a must-read for
anyone with an interest in one of the greatest American writers of
the twentieth century. Canterbery somehow gets inside the minds of
Scott Fitzgerald and his great loves and reveals their most
intimate thoughts. He also captures the spirit of the Jazz Age,
which Scott defined and named, as well as the glamour of Hollywood
in his twilight years. Further, he integrates Scott's writings into
his life.
Scott: A Novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald by E. Ray Canterbery is a
fascinating insight into the life of one of the great American
writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald. From humble beginnings to fame and
alcoholism, through to his untimely death, Scott is a must-read for
anyone with an interest in one of the greatest American writers of
the twentieth century. Canterbery somehow gets inside the minds of
Scott Fitzgerald and his great loves and reveals their most
intimate thoughts. He also captures the spirit of the Jazz Age,
which Scott defined and named, as well as the glamour of Hollywood
in his twilight years. Further, he integrates Scott's writings into
his life.
Beyond Conventional Economics: Selected Works of E Ray Canterbery
presents a collation of Canterbery's many contributions to
economics. This volume marks the first time that his complete works
have been presented, with the scope of the works ranging from
microeconomics and macroeconomics to history of thought and
methodology. If there is one theme that connects the contributions,
it is Canterbery's long-abiding concern with the income and wealth
distributions. They are front-and-center in his microeconomics,
macroeconomics, history of thought, and even some of his theories
of foreign exchange and speculation. Persona who appear in these
pages include Abba Lerner, Harry Johnson, Hyman Minsky, Michal
Kalecki, Pierro Sraffa, Kenneth Boulding, John Rawls, Robert
Nozick, Alfred Eichner, Thorstein Veblen, John Kenneth Galbraith,
Joan Robinson, Ayn Rand, Ronald Coase, Lester Thurow, Sven Arnt,
and H Peter Gray. Canterbery's policy ideas still have relevance
today, as some have been adopted worldwide. For example, in foreign
exchange, his delayed peg has been utilitzed in countries that shy
away from completely 'free' exchange rates. His criticism of
monetary policy decision-making contributed to the idea of more
frequent reporting on changes in the federal funds rate.
Blending past and present, this brief history of economics is the
perfect book for introducing students to the field.A Brief History
of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not
only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their
cultural milieu. Understanding the economists' visions - lucidly
and vividly unveiled by Canterbery - allows readers to place
economics within a broader community of ideas. Magically, the
author links Adam Smith to Isaac Newton's idea of an orderly
universe, F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to Thorstein
Veblen, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath to the Great Depression,
and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities to Reaganomics.Often
humorous, Canterbery's easy style will make the student's first
foray into economics lively and relevant. Readers will dismiss
"dismal" from the science.
"A Brief History of Economics" illustrates how the ideas of the
great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves
shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding the economists'
visions - lucidly and vividly unveiled by Canterbery -allows
readers to place economics within a broader community of ideas.
Magically, the author links Adam Smith to Isaac Newton's idea of an
orderly universe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" to
Thornstein Veblen, John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" to the Great
Depression, and Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities" to
Reaganomics. Often humorous, Canterbery's easy style should make
the student's first foray into economics lively and relevant.
Readers will no longer dare call it the "dismal science".
This book is written as a sequel to John Kenneth Galbraith's The
Affluent Society, and provides a theoretical framework, for the
first time, for surpra-surplus capitalism.Conventional economics
has the income and wealth distributions as 'givens'. This
assumption immediately excludes such distributions from economic
and social concern. Occasionally, economists such as Kenneth
Boulding and even earlier, Michal Kalecki, have attempted to
develop alternative perspectives in which such distributions are
integral to the story and therefore have implications for public
policy. At the same time, conventional microeconomics is a theory
of price only in which economic efficiency (in an engineering
sense) is the only value to be optimized. The income or wealth
distributions are given as constraints. Mathematically, the
constraints thereafter become invisible; they have no further role
to play. The choices that are presumed to be made are neither
inhibited nor facilitated by a household's position in the income
or wealth distributions.This volume will explore problems with
conventional theory and policy, but its main thrust comprises a
theory of supra-surplus capitalism, applicable to both developed
and developing countries, and its relation to inequalities
worldwide.
Since its onset in late 2007, few expected the Great Recession to
be protracted for over half a decade across the world. The Rise and
Fall of Global Austerity explains the origins and history of
austerity, severe implications of the idea of it and how the
continuation of the Great Recession was a by-product of austerity
measures. Covering austerity policies that are in place in the
United States, Europe, and other countries, E Ray Canterbery
explains why austerity is detrimental for economies, economic
policy and the general health of populations around the world. He
highlights the connection between public debt and austerity
policies and shows how the austerity lobby works in the United
States to achieve its goals. Besides presenting a critique of the
rationale for austerity, Canterbery also recommends monetary,
fiscal, and incomes policy remedies, and stresses why economic
growth and full employment are more ideal and pragmatic antidotes
to the Great Recession.
Harry S Truman is best remembered as the President who witnessed
the swift arrival of the Cold War in the tumultuous years after
World War Two. Little however has been written to show that he was
also the populist President who set the political economic course
for the United States to win it merely 40 years later.In this
timely biography, E Ray Canterbery captures the spirit of the man,
who first and foremost, was a politician who crafted political
progams such as the Fair Deal program, full-employment program, New
Deal program, reconversion, stabilization, and agriculture progams
through the lens of progressiveness. He focuses on Truman's
populist economics by charting Truman's early years, the makings of
his populist character, his beginnings in Washington, Communism and
the Truman Doctrine, the campaign of 1948, the Marshall Plan, the
firing of General MacArthur, and the Korean War. While the economic
aspects of his term were fundamentally that of war and peace,
Canterbery analyses in great depth Truman's economic policies and
instruments, such as the Employment Act of 1946 and the President's
Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) - results of Truman's presidency
that other authors of books on Truman have largely ignored.Harry S
Truman: The Economics of a Populist President shows how Truman
should be remembered: As a progressive politician whose populist
policies rank him among the "near great" Presidents in the
tradition of William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, and
Woodrow Wilson.
Canterbery's latest literary work provides a definitive account of
the Great Recession of 2007-2010. It presents an output-employment
framework for evaluating the Great Recession. A chapter on the
Great Depression provides a basis for comparison while outlining
the institutions still intact that moderated that downturn.
Finally, the aftermath of the recession is accounted for.In 2003
John Kenneth Galbraith, who knew both Michal Kalecki and John
Maynard Keynes, called Canterbery, ';the best.';
Blending past and present, this brief history of economics is the
perfect book for introducing students to the field.
A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the
great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves
shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding the economists'
visions lucidly and vividly unveiled by Canterbery allows readers
to place economics within a broader community of ideas. Magically,
the author links Adam Smith to Isaac Newton's idea of an orderly
universe, F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to Thorstein
Veblen, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath to the Great Depression,
and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities to Reaganomics. The
second edition is right up-to-date with a lively discussion of the
economic crises of 20072010.
Often humorous, Canterbery's easy style will make the student's
first foray into economics lively and relevant. Readers will
dismiss "dismal" from the science.
This book is the first in the field to cover exclusively the modern
radical economists. Science has always had its radicals; economics
is unexceptional in this regard. The book begins with the persona
of Karl Marx and his soulmate Friedrich Engels, the most radical of
all, continuing with the central ideas of Marx, including his
theory of capitalism and an understanding of why, in Marx's view,
capitalism is doomed. Thereafter, Thorstein Veblen fills the role
as the USA radical who founded the only uniquely American school of
economics - the institutionalist school. This is followed by Joseph
Schumpeter and his theory of capitalist motion. According to
Schumpeter, the demise of capitalism is self-inflicted through
creative destruction. The bestselling authors, Robert Heilbroner
and John Kenneth Galbraith, straddle both the insitutionalist and
Post Keynesian schools. The new left radicals emanated from
Galbraith's Harvard University and are still around today. The
heyday of the new right came during the administration of Ronald
Reagan and was led by the neo-Austrians. Finally, the book
concludes by analyzing the Post Keynesians' claim to be the
legitimate heirs to Keynesianism. Thus far, they fall into the
radical camp.This book is also available as a .
Volume II in The Making of Economics, 4th Edition series fills a
major gap in the literature of economics, providing in brief
fashion a complete treatment of high theory in economics. Like
Volume I, the book is accessible to the intelligent reader, be they
advanced undergraduate or graduate students, laypeople, or
professors of economics and finance. The author walks the reader
through the maze of contemporary economics, acquainting them with
the most up-to-date theories as well as recent economic history.
The learning tasks are eased by volleys of examples as well as
dramatic illustrations. The progression is from neoclassical
Keynesian economics to monetarism, continuing with mathematical
economics and econometrics, the theory of economic growth, the new
classical economics, game theory, experimental economics, and
global economics. For example, common threads between Smithian
classical economics and new classical economics are woven into the
fabric of discussions directing the way to the higher theory. The
new chapters on mathematics and econometrics, game theory,
experimental economics, and globalization are not to be found in
other surveys of what the author calls the ';Modern Superstructure
of Economics.'; Although designed to be used with Volume I, it can
also stand alone as a text or textbook supplement for a wide range
of courses in economics and finance.This book is also available as
a .
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