When the money runs out : the end of western affluence /
"The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is a historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
ISBN: | 9780300194876 0300194870 |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Whatever happened to the decades of plenty?
- Taking progress for granted
- The pain of stagnation
- Fixing a broken economy
- Stimulus junkies
- The limits to stimulus : lessons from history
- Loss of trust, loss of growth
- Three schisms
- From economic disappointment to political instability
- Dystopia
- Avoiding dystopia.