- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; New Ed edition (4 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520230701
- ISBN-13: 978-0520230705
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,117,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Growing Prosperity could well be as important in shaping our future as Keynes' General Theory....A work as meticulous as it is powerful, as promising as it is persuasive." - Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers "Bluestone and Harrison have alerted us to the key issue confronting America: how to achieve growth with equity. This country needs a powerful dialogue on how to continue growth while deepening its benefits to all Americans. This is the blueprint for the terms of that debate." - U.S. Representative Richard Gephardt "A breakthough in the political debate over the New Economy. This is the first book that lays out a progressive economic policy designed to encourage technology-driven growth, while ameliorating bad consequences such as a widening income disparity and excessive dependence on a volatile stock market." - Michael J. Mandel, Business Week"
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In this elegantly argued book, political economists Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison examine America's great surge of economic expansion in its historical context to demonstrate the causes for the vibrancy of our economy. This is a Century Foundation Book.
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Format:Hardcover
This book concentrates on the idea of an economic future based on economic growth. If the idea was not already suspect when the book was published, then it certainly is totally out of date now, after the economic collapse of 2008, and the consequences of that melt-down. If it wasn't so before, it is now completely clear that the worlds economic future depends on a system without growth. Given that the thesis of this book is already dead, if you want to get an idea of what the economic future must look like, then read "Prosperity without Growth", by Tom Jackson, published by Earthscan. This will give you a more accurate idea of what is meant by the word "Prosperity" and how it can be achieved, and what we have to do in order to achieve it.
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Throwing light on technological long waves.
24 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
Using historical data on the rate of increase of productivity, these authors build a convincing case that the United States is near the beginning of an economic boom based on information technlogy. They go well beyond most economists in explaining the nature of economic long waves (also called Kondratieff waves). They then explain in depth how current government economic policies are misdirected in terms of maximizing this pattern of economic growth.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A New Model for Economic Growth
4 Dec 2002
Format:Paperback
We've all heard about the great economic miracle of the past twenty years. What we haven't heard, though, is that the rate of growth has significantly slowed from pre-1973 levels. This book explains why, and shows that we may be able to achieve high growth rates again. The authors criticize the "Wall Street Model" of growth, which stresses low inflation and enhanced savings. This model, they say, leads to increased inequality and slower growth. The authors present an alternative "Main Street Model" which instead stresses technological innovation as the main driver of growth. The keys to increasing technological innovation are public investments in R&D and infrastructure, as well as increasing demand through higher minimum wages and a stronger role for unions. This book coherently presents this new model of growth and explains why the Wall Street model is flawed. This book has an unashamedly left-wing bias and some people may be put off by the more opinionated parts of this book. I found myself wishing the authors would stick to facts instead of shoving ideas in your face that can't be backed up. In one part of the book the authors discuss the "neoclassical growth syllogism" and try to show how flawed it is. To do this, they examine each premise of the syllogism and assign a seemingly arbitrary percentage describing how true the premise is. You just can't do that. If you give me a number, you better be able to support it with facts or else you're wasting my time. These authors are probably well educated and they should know better than to whimsically pull numbers out of their [fundaments.]
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