Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream by Gruber, Jonathan
Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream by Gruber, Jonathan

Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream

The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen...
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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream by Gruber, Jonathan

Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream

$385.03
Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream by Gruber, Jonathan

Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream

$385.03
Author: Jonathan Gruber
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Jonathan Gruber, Simon Johnson
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 04/09/2019
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781541762480

About the Author
Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT. A key architect of both Romneycare and Obamacare, he appears regularly on both Fox News and MSNBC. Slate has named him one of the top twenty-five Most Innovative and Practical Thinkers of Our Time. In addition to over 160 academic articles, he is the author of Health Care Reform (Hill & Wang), a graphic novel about the Affordable Care Act.

Simon Johnson is the Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT and a former chief economist to the IMF. His much-viewed opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Atlantic, and elsewhere. With law professor James Kwak, Simon is the co-author of the bestsellers 13 Bankers and White House Burning and a founder of the widely-cited economics blog The Baseline Scenario.
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