Author: United States. Temporary National Economic Committee
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2090
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Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power
Author: United States. Temporary National Economic Committee
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2090
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2090
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Internal Revenue Acts of the United States, 1909-1950
Author: Bernard D. Reams (Jr.)
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Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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Excess Profits Tax Act of 1950
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Revenue Revision of 1941
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 1892
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 1892
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Warhogs
Author: Stuart D. Brandes
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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The Puritans condemned war profiteering as a "Provoking Evil," George Washington feared that it would ruin the Revolution, and Franklin D. Roosevelt promised many times that he would never permit the rise of another crop of "war millionaires." Yet on every occasion that American soldiers and sailors served and sacrificed in the field and on the sea, other Americans cheerfully enhanced their personal wealth by exploiting every opportunity that wartime circumstances presented. In Warhogs, Stuart D. Brandes masterfully blends intellectual, economic, and military history into a fascinating discussion of a great moral question for generations of Americans: Can some individuals rightly profit during wartime while others sacrifice their lives to protect the nation? Drawing upon a wealth of manuscript sources, newspapers, contemporary periodicals, government reports, and other relevant literature, Brandes traces how each generation in financing its wars has endeavored to assemble resources equitably, to define the ethical questions of economic mobilization, and to manage economic sacrifice responsibly. He defines profiteering to include such topics as price gouging, quality degradation, trading with the enemy, plunder, and fraud, in order to examine the different guises of war profits and the degree to which they have existed from one era to the next. This far-reaching discussion moves beyond a linear narrative of the financial schemes that have shaped this nation's capacity to make war to an in-depth analysis of American thought and culture. Those scholars, students, and general readers interested in the interaction of legislative, economic, social, and technological events with the military establishment will find no other study that so thoroughly surveys the story of war profits in America.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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The Puritans condemned war profiteering as a "Provoking Evil," George Washington feared that it would ruin the Revolution, and Franklin D. Roosevelt promised many times that he would never permit the rise of another crop of "war millionaires." Yet on every occasion that American soldiers and sailors served and sacrificed in the field and on the sea, other Americans cheerfully enhanced their personal wealth by exploiting every opportunity that wartime circumstances presented. In Warhogs, Stuart D. Brandes masterfully blends intellectual, economic, and military history into a fascinating discussion of a great moral question for generations of Americans: Can some individuals rightly profit during wartime while others sacrifice their lives to protect the nation? Drawing upon a wealth of manuscript sources, newspapers, contemporary periodicals, government reports, and other relevant literature, Brandes traces how each generation in financing its wars has endeavored to assemble resources equitably, to define the ethical questions of economic mobilization, and to manage economic sacrifice responsibly. He defines profiteering to include such topics as price gouging, quality degradation, trading with the enemy, plunder, and fraud, in order to examine the different guises of war profits and the degree to which they have existed from one era to the next. This far-reaching discussion moves beyond a linear narrative of the financial schemes that have shaped this nation's capacity to make war to an in-depth analysis of American thought and culture. Those scholars, students, and general readers interested in the interaction of legislative, economic, social, and technological events with the military establishment will find no other study that so thoroughly surveys the story of war profits in America.
Wartime Taxation in Britain
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Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Rich Don't Always Win
Author: Sam Pizzigati
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 160980435X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way. Except they don't. A century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domineering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become museums and college campuses, and America had become a vibrant, mass middle class nation, the first and finest the world had ever seen. Americans today ought to be taking no small inspiration from this stunning change. After all, if our forbears successfully beat back grand fortune, why can't we? But this transformation is inspiring virtually no one. Why? Because the story behind it has remained almost totally unknown, until now. This lively popular history will speak directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. By tracing how average Americans took down plutocracy over the first half of the 20th Century--and how plutocracy came back-- The Rich Don't Always Win will outfit Occupy Wall Street America with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 160980435X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way. Except they don't. A century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domineering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become museums and college campuses, and America had become a vibrant, mass middle class nation, the first and finest the world had ever seen. Americans today ought to be taking no small inspiration from this stunning change. After all, if our forbears successfully beat back grand fortune, why can't we? But this transformation is inspiring virtually no one. Why? Because the story behind it has remained almost totally unknown, until now. This lively popular history will speak directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. By tracing how average Americans took down plutocracy over the first half of the 20th Century--and how plutocracy came back-- The Rich Don't Always Win will outfit Occupy Wall Street America with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream.
Evolution and statutory renegotiation and the Navy Price Adjustment Board, observations
Author: United States. Navy Department
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Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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References on Defense, War, and Economic Effects of War
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Statistics of Income for ...
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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