The Zero-Sum Society
Subtitle: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: April 10, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780465085880
First sentence: AFTER DECADES of believing in their economic invulnerability, Americans were jolted by the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo.
Description: "As relevant today as it was twenty years ago, The Zero-Sum Society shows us how to think about the best way to balance government stewardship of the economy with the free market aspirations of upwardly mobile Americans.".

"Interpreting macroeconomics as a zero-sum game, Thurow proposes that the American economy will not solve its trenchant problems - inflation, slow economic growth, the environment - until the political economy can support, in theory and practice, the idea that certain members of society will have to bear the brunt of taxation and other government-sponsored economic actions.

The Zero-Sum Society is a piercing analysis of the social implications of economic policy and a classic work of economic problem solving."--BOOK JACKET.