This course will focus on the environment of firms with particular emphasis on economic variables such as GNP, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and international trade. The course is divided into five parts: The first presents the basic tools of macroeconomic management by focusing on...

Attempts to determine whether the U.S. is an establishment or an oligarchy. Compares and contrasts the two systems with the author concluding that the U.S. is an oligarchy.

Conventional explanations of America's slow productivity growth end up by giving up. Much of the slow down remains unexplained by changes in the quality or quantity of conventional inputs. If one looks at changes in occupational employment, it is clear that the productivity problem is an office...