The servant economy : where America's elite is sending the middle class /
By: Faux, Jeff
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BookPublisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2012.Description: v, 298 p ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780470182390 (trade); 0470182393Subject(s): Middle class -- United States -- Economic conditions | Economic policy -- United States | Middle class -- United States -- Economic conditions | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic ConditionsDDC classification: 330.973 Online resources: Location Map
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Explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slide, how after World War II the U.S. could afford a prosperous middle class, a dominant military, and a booming economic elite at the same time, but for the past three decades, all three have been competing, with the middle class always losing, and explores a future economy nearly devoid of production and exports, with the most profitable industries existing to solely to serve the wealthiest one percent.
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 330.973 FA SE (Browse shelf) | Available | T0023423 |
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| 330.973 DE DE The demographic cliff : | 330.973 DE WH This is who we were : | 330.973 EC ON The economists' voice 2.0 : | 330.973 FA SE The servant economy : | 330.973 GR BE Becoming Europe : | 330.973 GU ID Guide to economic indicators : | 330.973 GU ID Guide to economic indicators : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.
Explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slide, how after World War II the U.S. could afford a prosperous middle class, a dominant military, and a booming economic elite at the same time, but for the past three decades, all three have been competing, with the middle class always losing, and explores a future economy nearly devoid of production and exports, with the most profitable industries existing to solely to serve the wealthiest one percent.
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