ISBN: 9780307592811

Description: x, 174 pages : illustrations

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Insight
• Parallels
• The basic bargain
• Why the rich don't buy enough
• Why policy makers obsess about the financial economy instead of the real one
• The great prosperity : 1947-1977
• How we got ourselves into the same mess again
• How Americans kept buying anyway : the three coping mechanisms
• The future without coping mechanisms
• The myth of global rebalancing
• What comes next.

LCCN: 2010004134

Control Number: 707946

Subjects:

• United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009.
• United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
• United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Forecasting.