MIT Now, in the face of great economic success, American society is plagued with widespread anxiety.
Great wealth is built from economic disequilibrium.
We are experiencing a time when new technologies can allow costs to fall faster than prices. At the same time, these enormous profits undermine traditional economic stability. And the forces of great wealth undermine the stability of the upper middle class as well as the lower middle class. As a result, society is being reorganized to meet the demands of the knowledge economy and the technologies that it breeds. A prolific writer, Thurow is the author of several books.