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Aftershock : the next economy and America's future / Robert B. Reich.

Aftershock (other title)
Reich, Robert B. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307592811
  • ISBN: 0307592812
  • Physical Description: x, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-161) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Eccles's insight -- Parallels -- The basic bargain -- How concentrated income at the top hurts the economy -- Why policymakers obsess about the financial economy instead of about the real one -- The great prosperity : 1947-1975 -- How we got ourselves into the same mess again -- How Americans kept buying anyway : the three coping mechanisms -- The future without coping mechanisms -- Why China won't save us -- No return to normal.
Subject:
United States > Economic conditions > 2009-
United States > Economic conditions > 2001-2009.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century > Forecasting.

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