Time To Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline - Softcover

Luce, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408702762 ISBN 13: 9781408702765

Verlag: Little, Brown, 2012

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On its present course, the US faces a world of rising new countries that will compete with it ever more fiecely as its own power is declining. In order to slow and improve this steady leakage of power, the US must change course internationally, economically and domestically. It must also restructure to remain the world's most competitive economy. And it must address quality of life issues and fairness at home.

But American politics is broken -- competing forces and interests have led to stasis. With change so tough, where now for a country where the middle classes are suffering as they have never suffered before, the pensions crisis is growing, the deficit out of sight, and radicalism waiting in the wings?

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Georgetown 2011, and as the last of the late cherry blossom sprinkles the trees, the latest class of MBA students are getting ready to graduate. It should be a day of celebration, but that year's commencement speaker, the ninety-year-old Nobel winning economist Robert Solow, has different ideas. 'I don't do motivational speaking,' Solow announces, before offering a bracing picture of the economy the graduates are about to head out into. Solow describes a nation skewed with deep seated problems, where wealth had shifted from wages and salaries to corporate profits, and where the top one per cent are reliving a Gilded Age. 'Your guess is as good as mine as to how society will respond,' Solow concludes.

On its present course, the US faces a world of rising new countries that will compete with it ever more fiercely as its own power is declining. In order to stem this steady leakage of power, the US must change course internationally, economically and domestically. It must also restructure to remain the world's most competitive economy. And it must address quality of life issues and fairness at home.

But American politics is broken -- competing forces and interests have led to stasis. With change so tough, where now for a country where the middle classes are suffering as they have never suffered before, the pensions crisis is growing, the deficit out of sight, and radicalism waiting in the wings?

In Time To Start Thinking, Edward Luce looks in fascinating detail at the economic problems that have brought America to this crossroads, from the impact of globalisation to the polarized politics of Washington, and from the future of innovation to the uses and abuses of history. The result, Luce argues, is a dangerous descent that can only be countered by rediscovering America's most precious virtue: its rich tradition of pragmatism.

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• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1408702762
• ISBN 13: 9781408702765
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304