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When the money runs out : the end of western affluence / Stephen D. King.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2013Description: x, 287 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300205237 (softcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.20941 23
LOC classification:
  • HC 260  K54w 2014
Contents:
Introduction : whatever happened to the decades of plenty? -- Taking progress for granted -- The pain of stagnation -- Fixing a broken economy -- Stimulus junkies -- The limits to stimulus : lessons from history -- Loss of trust, loss of growth -- Three schisms -- From economic disappointment to political instability -- Dystopia -- Avoiding dystopia.
Summary: The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is an historical anomaly, the author warns, and the current stagnation of Western economies threatens to reach crisis proportions in the not-so-distant future.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HC 260 K54w 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000126830

"First published in paperback in 2014"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-278) and index.

Introduction : whatever happened to the decades of plenty? --
Taking progress for granted --
The pain of stagnation --
Fixing a broken economy --
Stimulus junkies --
The limits to stimulus : lessons from history --
Loss of trust, loss of growth --
Three schisms --
From economic disappointment to political instability --
Dystopia --
Avoiding dystopia.

The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is an historical anomaly, the author warns, and the current stagnation of Western economies threatens to reach crisis proportions in the not-so-distant future.

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