The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change

ISBN: 9780465093847

定价: 105.00

内容简介

Slow growth and declining productivity
energy shortages and overregulation
chronic inflation and persistent povertV
the problems are all too visible and SO iS
our inability to solve themAs the rest of
the world begins to overtake US in real ec
onomic growth and productivityour soci
ety seems paralyzedunable to act or even
to agree on what action is necessary
Why?
It iS the disturbing but fully documented
thesis of this important book by one of the
nationS leading economists that the rea
son we are finding it SO difficult to get the
economy 0ff dead center iS that none of
the problems that bedevil uswhether it
be energy or inflation or technological in
novation--can be solved without making
many Americans worse offeven though
society as a whole might gain
The problem iS that in our democratic sys
tem these minorities have the power to
veto solutions they do not likeand in
recent years that is precisely what they