TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reich,Robert B.
TI  - Aftershock: The next economy and America's future 
SN  - 9780345807229
AV  - HC106.84 .R45 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books, A Division of Random House LLC
KW  - United States
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 2009-
KW  - 2001-2009
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Forecasting
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index; 	Eccles' Insight --
Parallels --
The basic bargain --
How concentrated income at the top hurts the economy --
Why policymakers obsess about the financial economy instead of the real one --
The great prosperity : 1947-1975 --
How we got ourselves into the same mess again --
How Americans kept buying anyway : the three coping mechanisms --
The future without coping mechanisms --
Why China won't save us --
No return to normal --
The 2020 election --
The politics of economics, 2010-2020 --
Why can't we be content with less? --
The pain of economic loss --
Adding insult to injury --
Outrage at a rigged game --
The politics of anger --
What should be done: a new deal for the middle class --
How it could get done
N2  - Economic policy maker and political theorist Robert B. Reich argues that the nation's 2008 economic collapse is the result of an increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top--and a middle class that had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living. To ensure that prosperity is widely shared, he continues, requires the implementation of a much broader safety net for the middle class financed by higher marginal tax rates on the very wealthy
ER  -