The great American economy
Subtitle: how inefficiency broke it and what we can do to fix it
By: Steve Slavin
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781633883055
Subjects: Economic policy; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Social policy
Description: 414 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-387) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Losing our economic bearings; title: Is our economy fundamentally sound?; title: What went wrong?; title: Part II. Six cataclysmic events; title: Depression and war; title: Suburbanization; title: The Cold War; title: Globalization and global warming; title: Part III. The deindustrialization of America; title: The rise and fall of American industrial power; title: Innovation, infrastructure, and industrial policy; title: Part IV. Jobs, wages, and the job shortage; title: Jobs and wages; title: The job shortage; title: Part vi. Wasting our resources by using them inefficiently; title: Our wasteful transportation system; title: Our failing public schools; title: Our sick healthcare system; title: Part VII. Wasting our resources by over producing; title: The military-industrial complex; title: The criminal justice establishment; title: Our bloated financial sector; title: Part VIII. Wasting our resources by producing useless goods and services; title: The Internal Revenue Code and the tax preparation industry; title: Telemarketers, ambulance chasers, and other make-work occupations; title: Part VIII. The economic, social, and political consequences of wasting our resources; title: The economic consequences of wasting our resources; title: Our twin deficits; title: Our unraveling social contract; title: Growing income inequality and the shrinking middle class; title: Poverty and the growing permanent underclass; title: Part IX. Restoring the American economy; title: How we are wasting our resources: the big picture; title: Solving our economic problems and saving the American economy; title: The great job switch: placing tens of millions of Americans in useful jobs; title: A long-term strategy to save the American economy.