Our country faces a multitude of problems and challenges. Included are rising college costs, widening income inequality, immigration, global warming, inadequate health care, and numerous others. There is certainly no lack of discussion and debate about these issues. While solutions are often offered, the remedies are usually little more than generalities. The solutions are typically phrased as "we need to do more to-fill the blank." Little attention is given to how the recommended solution will work, if it will work, how it will be funded, and if there is any solid research backing its claims. It's little wonder our big national problems never seem to be solved. "Real Solutions" is different. It offers specific, research-backed, fully funded recommendations for finally addressing our biggest challenges. The real solutions are not sugar-coated and they involve sacrifices. But they show our problems can be addressed-if we want to address them. Michael Walden is uniquely suited to provide these real solutions. As an academic for over forty years, he knows the research behind the problems and how to address them. But as an academic who has worked with elected officials, business owners, workers, and everyday people, he knows how to translate academic findings into understandable plans. With "Real Solutions," there's finally a public policy book with both a firm foundation and logical and workable ideas for ending our debates and solving our most pressing problems.

Real Solutions: Common Sense Ideas For Solving Our Most Pressing Problems

Business & Money

Walden, Michael L.

Economics

Wisdom House Books

Wouldn’t it be nice to end our dependence on foreign oil, and fuel automobiles with a cheap and abundant energy source? Corith College scientist George Hollaway thinks he’s found the answer to this dilemma when he finally succeeds in squeezing fuel from the tenacious kudzu plant.
 But when George seeks financial advice for his discovery from newly hired economics professor Dia Fenner, he receives some bad news. He’s overlooked some key costs in producing kudzu fuel that make the alternative unprofitable in today’s marketplace. Yet powerful forces see kudzu fuel as the ticket to their dreams, including the interim college president and two influential businessmen.
 When Dia persists in presenting her economic arguments questioning the fuel, she first finds her job—then her life—in jeopardy. Her house is vandalized, she’s attacked, and shadowy figures stalk her. Someone is trying to silence Dia. Will they succeed?

Micro Mischief: A Dia Fenner Economic Thriller

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

iUniverse

At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future. Today we are living in a technologically connected age that has completely transformed the North Carolina economy, Walden explains. Once driven by tobacco, textiles, and furniture, the North Carolina economy now thrives on technology, pharmaceuticals, finance, food processing, and the manufacture of vehicle parts. While the state as a whole has benefited from these dramatic transformations, some population groups and regions have not experienced consistent economic growth. Walden identifies education as the key factor; a skilled, college-educated work force, he argues, is now a region's most prized commodity. Walden traces how the forces of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have remade the North Carolina economy, impacted people and regions, and led to the most substantive public policy debates in decades. Written in a lively style and including original research and insights, North Carolina in the Connected Age is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the state arrived where it is today and what its future might hold.

North Carolina in the Connected Age: Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy

The University of North Carolina Press

At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future. Today we are living in a technologically connected age that has completely transformed the North Carolina economy, Walden explains. Once driven by tobacco, textiles, and furniture, the North Carolina economy now thrives on technology, pharmaceuticals, finance, food processing, and the manufacture of vehicle parts. While the state as a whole has benefited from these dramatic transformations, some population groups and regions have not experienced consistent economic growth. Walden identifies education as the key factor; a skilled, college-educated work force, he argues, is now a region's most prized commodity. Walden traces how the forces of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have remade the North Carolina economy, impacted people and regions, and led to the most substantive public policy debates in decades. Written in a lively style and including original research and insights, North Carolina in the Connected Age is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the state arrived where it is today and what its future might hold.

For years, North Carolina has been one of the nation's fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state's people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government. Much of this change resulted from the information and technology revolution, which connected the state more fully to the country and the world. But we are now moving beyond the connected age, argues Michael L. Walden, to a new era of living, production, and work, and North Carolina faces not only unanswered questions about the past but also new challenges and opportunities visible on the horizon. What will these new transformations mean for the state's people, places, and prosperity? In this book, Walden lays out these looming economic issues and offers predictions of future trends as well as multiple policy options for taxation, infrastructure, and environmental issues. While the future cannot be perfectly predicted, Walden's expert analysis is mandatory reading for policy makers, business leaders, and everyday people seeking to prepare for upcoming changes in North Carolina's economy.

North Carolina beyond the Connected Age: The Tar Heel State in 2050

Univ of North Carolina Pr

The United States' political system has fractured into multiple tribal groups. A federal budget hasn't been passed in years, and presidents are routinely impeached during their first month in office. States have closed their borders and thumbed their collective noses at the federal government. The country is running on fumes, and foreign powers know it. It seems it's only a matter of time before the great experiment of the United States of America is no more. The only question is, how many states will be absorbed into foreign empires? Against this backdrop, four individuals, a newly elected US Senator, the first illegal resident selected as a state governor, and a newlywed couple looking for a better life, unknowingly confront foreign agents, a cartel backed terrorist group, kidnappers, and an unknown murderer in their fight to save the country. Will they succeed? Or will their efforts be the last gasp of themselves - and of the country they love?

Disunionia: A Political Thriller

iUniverse, Inc.

Re-Launch: Renewing Families and Reviving the American Dream in The New Independent Lifestyle

Defiance Press & Publishing, LLC

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Real Solutions: Common Sense Ideas For Solving Our Most Pressing Problems

Micro Mischief: A Dia Fenner Economic Thriller

North Carolina in the Connected Age: Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy

North Carolina in the Connected Age: Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy

North Carolina beyond the Connected Age: The Tar Heel State in 2050

North Carolina beyond the Connected Age: The Tar Heel State in 2050

Disunionia: A Political Thriller

Re-Launch: Renewing Families and Reviving the American Dream in The New Independent Lifestyle