1st Edition

Questions for America 2024 and Beyond

By Jack Reardon, David Wheat Copyright 2025
474 Pages
by Routledge

474 Pages
by Routledge

474 Pages
by Routledge

To solve its multiple challenges post-2024, America must act with intelligence and wisdom, which can only come from an active and well-informed citizenry. The issues that confront us post-2024 are profound: climate change, inequality, artificial intelligence, an unstable geopolitical global order, existential threats from unfriendly nations, just to name a few. A democracy needs an educated... Read more

Introduction  PART I: Basic Economic Indicators  PART II: Domestic Cultural, and Political Issues  PART III: Power and Technology  PART IV: International Governance  PART V: International Trouble Spots  PART VI: Energy and Climate Change.  Conclusion

Biography

Jack Reardon is Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire. He is the founding editor of The International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, passionately advocating for a reconceptualized, inclusive, and pluralist economics and economics education so that we all can reach our potential. Author of several books on economics, and a novel, Jack has taught /lectured across the globe, including China, India, the Soviet Union, Latvia, Lithuania, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Mexico.

David Wheat is Emeritus Professor of System Dynamics at the University of Bergen in Norway. During the 1972–75 period, he served as White House Staff Assistant to Presidents Nixon and Ford, working on economic and energy policy issues. Later, he headed a private consulting firm in Texas. Professor Wheat’s current projects include collaboration with Ukrainian economists to build dynamic modeling capacity at universities in Kyiv and Lviv and working with policymakers on a post-war reconstruction planning model for Ukraine.