Aftershock : the next economy and America's future / Robert B. Reich.
Reich, Robert B.
2010
HC106.84 .R45 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Aftershock : the next economy and America's future / Robert B. Reich.
Author
Reich, Robert B.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307592811 (alk. paper)
0307592812 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Language
English
Description
x, 174 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HC106.84 .R45 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.973
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.
Note
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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pt. I. The broken bargain. 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
pt. II. Backlash. The 2020 election
The politics of economics, 2010-2020
Why can't we be content with less?
The pain of economic loss
Adding insult to injury
Outrage at a rigged game
The politics of anger
pt. III. The bargain restored. What should be done: a new deal for the middle class
How it could get done.

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