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Jump-Starting America - How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream (Paperback)
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Jump-Starting America - How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 510
You Save R84 (16%)
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The untold story of how America once created the most successful
economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again. The
American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite
different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly
concentrated in a few crowded coastal enclaves. Corporations and
investors are disproportionately developing technologies that
benefit the wealthiest Americans in the most prosperous areas --
and destroying middle class jobs elsewhere. To turn this tide, we
must look to a brilliant and all-but-forgotten American success
story and embark on a plan that will create the industries of the
future -- and the jobs that go with them. Beginning in 1940,
massive public investment generated breakthroughs in science and
technology that first helped win WWII and then created the most
successful economy the world has ever seen. Private enterprise then
built on these breakthroughs to create new industries -- such as
radar, jet engines, digital computers, mobile telecommunications,
life-saving medicines, and the internet-- that became the catalyst
for broader economic growth that generated millions of good jobs.
We lifted almost all boats, not just the yachts. Jonathan Gruber
and Simon Johnson tell the story of this first American growth
engine and provide the blueprint for a second. It's a visionary,
pragmatic, sure-to-be controversial plan that will lead to job
growth and a new American economy in places now left behind.
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