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The great American economy : how inefficiency broke it and what we can do to fix it
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Title
The great American economy : how inefficiency broke it and what we can do to fix it / Steve Slavin.
ISBN
9781633883055 (hardcover)
1633883051 (hardcover)
Publication
Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2017.
Physical Description
414 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes index.
Other formats
Online version: Slavin, Stephen L., author. Great American economy Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2017
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 29, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-387) and index.
Contents
Part I. Losing our economic bearings
Is our economy fundamentally sound?
What went wrong?
Part II. Six cataclysmic events
Depression and war
Suburbanization
The Cold War
Globalization and global warming
Part III. The deindustrialization of America
The rise and fall of American industrial power
Innovation, infrastructure, and industrial policy
Part IV. Jobs, wages, and the job shortage
Jobs and wages
The job shortage
Part vi. Wasting our resources by using them inefficiently
Our wasteful transportation system
Our failing public schools
Our sick healthcare system
Part VII. Wasting our resources by over producing
The military-industrial complex
The criminal justice establishment
Our bloated financial sector
Part VIII. Wasting our resources by producing useless goods and services
The Internal Revenue Code and the tax preparation industry
Telemarketers, ambulance chasers, and other make-work occupations
Part VIII. The economic, social, and political consequences of wasting our resources
The economic consequences of wasting our resources
Our twin deficits
Our unraveling social contract
Growing income inequality and the shrinking middle class
Poverty and the growing permanent underclass
Part IX. Restoring the American economy
How we are wasting our resources: the big picture
Solving our economic problems and saving the American economy
The great job switch: placing tens of millions of Americans in useful jobs
A long-term strategy to save the American economy.
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