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What went wrong : how the 1% hijacked the American middle class...and what other countries got right
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What went wrong : how the 1% hijacked the American middle class...and what other countries got right / George R. Tyler.
ISBN
9781937856717 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
1937856712 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
9781937856724 (electronic)
Publication
Dallas, Texas : BenBella Books, Inc., [2013]
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The beginning. Facing reality ; What is Reaganomics? ; The triumph of family capitalism
The shift. Regulatory capture ; Shareholder capitalism ; A culture of selfishness ; Short-termism ; Small government hypocrisy ; Tax cut cultists ; "Deficits don't matter" ; Illusory prosperity ; Economic mythmaking
The results. Wages rise in family capitalism ; The gains from growth ; Income disparity ; The opportunity societies of stakeholder capitalism ; Australian-style wage determination in family capitalism ; Globalization can be a boon or a bane ; How family capitalism prospered from globalization ; Offshoring and the Apple problem ; Domestic content and the Apple problem ; Productivity and investment ; Deindustrializing America marks the Reagan decline ; Poverty ; Delayed American retirement ; Incentivizing and rewarding work
Recovery. Rebuilding the American dream ; American family capitalism.
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