TY - BOOK AU - King,Stephen D. TI - When the money runs out: the end of western affluence SN - 9780300205237 (softcover) AV - HC 260 K54w 2014 U1 - 339.20941 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Wealth KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Riqueza KW - Historia KW - Siglo XX KW - Siglo XXI KW - Economic conditions KW - Gran Bretaña KW - Condiciones económicas KW - Características nacionales N1 - "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 N2 - 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 ER -