Minding America's Business: The Decline and Rise of the American Economy

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982 - Business & Economics - 387 pages
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Seeks the reasons for America's declining productivity, argues that U.S. businesses have not kept pace with their international competition, and suggests possible remedies

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
The American Standard of Living
11
Table Of Exhibits
12
Copyright

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Minding America's Business: The Decline and Rise of the American Economy
Ira C. Magaziner,Robert B. Reich
Snippet view - 1983
Minding America's Business: The Decline and Rise of the American Economy
Ira C. Magaziner,Robert B. Reich
Snippet view - 1982
Minding America's Business: The Decline and Rise of the American Economy
Ira C. Magaziner,Robert B. Reich
Snippet view - 1982

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About the author (1982)

Robert B. Reich was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on June 24, 1946. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1968, a M.A. from Oxford University in 1970, and a J.D. from Yale University. Reich was an assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice from 1974 to 1976. He directed the policy planning staff of the Federal Trade Commission from 1976 to 1981 and taught on the faculty of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1981 to 1992. He served as the 22nd Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 under President Bill Clinton. He became the University Professor and the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandies University in 1997. He is currently the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Reich has written numerous books including Locked in the Cabinet; Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America; Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life; Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future; Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few; and The Common Good. In 2003, he was awarded the Vaclev Havel Foundation Prize for his pioneering work in economic and social thought.

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TitleMinding America's Business: The Decline and Rise of the American Economy
AuthorsIra C. Magaziner, Robert B. Reich
PublisherHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982
ISBN0151599548, 9780151599547
Length387 pages
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