Prosperity The Coming Twenty-Year Boom and What It Means to You

Name: Prosperity The Coming Twenty-Year Boom and What It Means to You
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ISBN: 9780812928198

ISBN-10: 0812928199

ISBN-13: 9780812928198

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Authors: Bob Davis

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Many Americans are enjoying the fruits of prosperity. Unemployment and inflation are low and it seems that everyone is driving a sport utility vehicle. But is this a prosperity that's reserved for the upper middle class, the folks driving the Jeep Cherokees? Or is something more fundamental happening? The answers are crucial for anyone interested in how America is changing--from corporate executives to policy makers to the average person keeping up with current issues. Bob Davis and David Wessel have spent thousands of hours in living rooms and workplaces around the country, and they show conclusively that the recent good economic news not only is here to stay but is the start of…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/31/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 324
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Broadly Shared Prosperity: Why the middle class will do better in the decades ahead


Looking Back to Look Ahead: Lessons from the beginning of the twentieth century


Plugged In: What the evolution of electricity says about the computer age


"A People's College": How high schools made broadly shared prosperity possible


The Golden Age: The rise of the American middle class, 1950-1973


The Age of Anxiety: A disappointing quarter-century for the middle class, 1973-1996


The Computer Paradox: Why computers haven't paid off - yet


Forward to the Future: Why computers finally will power faster economic growth


The Secret: No Bosses: How reorganizing the workplace will boost productivity


Alan Greenspan, Optimist at the Top: Why the Fed won't be an obstacle to faster growth


Dream Catchers: How community colleges will foster prosperity and equality


Making It Simple: How technology will make life better for less skilled workers


The Balance of Trade: How foreign trade and investment will benefit the American middle class


Imports: The Consumer's Friend: How consumers will gain from imports


Prospering Together: Why Americans and third-world workers will prosper together


The End of Work?: Where the jobs of the future will come from


What's to Be Done: How to ensure broadly shared prosperity


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index