Growing prosperity
Subtitle: the battle for growth with equity in the twenty-first century
By: Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison
Contributors: Harrison, Bennett
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Income distribution -- United States; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001; United States -- Economic policy
Description: "The sudden drop in America's productivity rate beginning in the early 1970s and the simultaneous increase in income inequality made a generation of American economists pessimistic about the nation's ability to grow faster or to deal with the growing gap between the rich and everyone else. Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison review the historical record and offer an elegant explanation of why the productivity drought occurred and why it is finally over.

The potential for a sustained era of economic expansion more equitably shared is on the horizon, thanks to the revolution in computer and information technology that has now come of age." "But potential, the authors argue, is one thing; realization is another. Though optimistic about the productivity boom, Bluestone and Harrison do not believe that the payoff to the technology revolution can be fully realized without a sea change in economic policy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Century Foundation book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index