Great Stagnation How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will(Eventually) Feel Better

Name: Great Stagnation How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will(Eventually) Feel Better
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ISBN: 9780525952718

ISBN-10: 0525952713

ISBN-13: 9780525952718

Edition: 2011

Authors: Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation, the eSpecial heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of our economic malaise, is now-at last-a book. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multidecade stagnation is not yet over. How will we get out of this mess? One political party tries to increase government spending even when we have no good plan for paying for ballooning programs like Medicare and Social Security. The other party seems to think…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/9/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface to the Hardcover Edition


The Low-Hanging Fruit We Ate: Land, Technology, and Uneducated Kids


Our New (Not So) Productive Economy: Government, Health Care, and Education


Does the Internet Change Everything?: Price, Production, and Revenue


The Government of Low-Hanging Fruit: Left, Right, and Upside Down


Why Did We Have Such a Big Financial Crisis?: Bankers, Museum Directors, You, and Me


Can We Fix Things?: The Great Difference Then and Now


Notes


Index