| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 174 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-161) and index. |
| Contents |
Insight -- Parallels -- The basic bargain -- Why the rich don't buy enough -- Why policy makers obsess about the financial economy instead of the real one -- The great prosperity : 1947-1977 -- How we got ourselves into the same mess again -- How Americans kept buying anyway : the three coping mechanisms -- The future without coping mechanisms -- The myth of global rebalancing -- What comes next. |
| Summary |
Celebrated economic policy maker and political theorist Robert B. Reich argues that the nation's 2008 economic collapse is the result of an increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top--and a middle class that had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living. To ensure that prosperity is widely shared, he continues, requires the implementation of a much broader safety net for the middle class financed by higher marginal tax rates on the very wealthy. |
| Subject |
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
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United States. |
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
2009- |
| Subject |
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009.
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| Chronological Term |
2001-2009 |
| Subject |
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Forecasting.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Forecasting. |
| ISBN |
9780307592811 alkaline paper |
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0307592812 alkaline paper |
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