Flat Broke in the Free Market How Globalization Fleeced Working People

Name: Flat Broke in the Free Market How Globalization Fleeced Working People
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ISBN: 9780393350012

ISBN-10: 0393350010

ISBN-13: 9780393350012

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Authors: Jon Jeter

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Growing up in an African American working-class family in the Midwest, Jon Jeter watched the jobs undergirding a community disappear. As a journalist for the Washington Post (twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist), he reported on the freemarket reforms of the IMF and the World Bank, which in a single generation created a transnational underclass.Led by the United States, nations around the world stopped making things and starting buying them, imbibing a risky cocktail of deindustrialization, privatization, and anti-inflationary monetary policy. Jeter gives the consequences of abstract economic policies a human face, and shows how our chickens are coming home to roost in the form of the subprime…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/11/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.99" long
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Jon Jeter was the Washington Post bureau chief for southern Africa from 1999 to 2003, and the Post's bureau chief for South America from 2003 to 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn.