The Decline and Crash of the American Economy

Joel Kurtzman

ISBN 10: 0393025233 / ISBN 13: 9780393025231

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1988

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224 pages including index. The bottom edge of the covers is sunned. There is a pen mark on the fore-edge. Spots of soil on the endpapers. the text is clean and unmarked. The bottom edge of the jacket is soiled. Seller Inventory # 16309

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Decline and Crash of the American Economy

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Paper Covered Boards

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

A financial journalist traces the slow crash that has been destroying America's real wealth, exposes the fatal weakness of American industry, and proposes a strategy for restoring the nation's wealth-generating capacity

From Publishers Weekly:

Kurtzman, financial journalist for the New York Times, provides an intriguing but decidedly mixed bag of nostrums for what he sees as the failing American economy. He argues that the U.S. has been undergoing a slow economic decline since the eary 1970s. He believes that the much ballyhooed "information and service economy" is a ridiculous notion and blames much of our decline on the loss of high-paying manufacturing jobs to the Third World. He is an outspoken advocate of progress and excoriates the pessimism of the Club of Rome's The Limits to Growth report. His remedies for correcting our supposed decline range from Japanese and European-style economic planning to adopting the gold standard. His infatuation with European planning and subsidies causes him to ignore the fact that these policies have held European unemployment at around 10% for a decade. Nevertheless, Kurtzman's ideas are sure to spark debate.
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