Aftershock
The Next Economy and America's Future
New York : Vintage Books, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: 2013 Vintage Books edition ; [movie tie-in edition].
Description: x, 186 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Economic policy maker and political theorist Robert B. Reich argues that the nation's 2008 economic collapse is the result of an increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top--and a middle class that had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living. To ensure that prosperity is widely shared, he continues, requires the implementation of a much broader safety net for the middle class financed by higher marginal tax rates on the very wealthy.
Contents:
Eccles' Insight -- Parallels -- The basic bargain -- How concentrated income at the top hurts the economy -- Why policymakers obsess about the financial economy instead of the real one -- The great prosperity : 1947-1975 -- How we got ourselves into the same mess again -- How Americans kept buying anyway : the three coping mechanisms -- The future without coping mechanisms -- Why China won't save us -- No return to normal -- The 2020 election -- The politics of economics, 2010-2020 -- Why can't we be content with less? -- The pain of economic loss -- Adding insult to injury -- Outrage at a rigged game -- The politics of anger -- What should be done: a new deal for the middle class -- How it could get done.
Subjects:
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Forecasting.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Forecasting.
ISBN:
9780345807229
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"The basis for the major motion picture Inequality for All" -- Cover.
Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index.
Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index.