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What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class... and What Other Countries Got Right

What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class... and What Other Countries Got Right


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Americans have long been proud of the strength and robustness of their economy. But the truth is economic inequality in the United States is now closer to a third-world country than to their first-world peers, and is growing. Many things have been blamed for these failures—globalization, outsourcing, economic cycles, weakening education, and so on—but the reality is that the failure of their economy stems directly from a set of political and economic choices voters have made since the early 1980s. This isn't about the size of government or social welfare programs. And it isn't about left versus right—prudent Australia, for example, had a right-wing government for many years and is ranked by the Heritage Foundation as far more free than the United States. It's about policies on wages and corporate governance that have converted globalization to nationwide family prosperity and have been proven over decades to generate superior results.



About the Author :
George Tyler is an economist who has extensive private- and public-sector exposure to international issues and foreign economics and political systems. Author of What Went Wrong he worked in the United States Senate for 18 years. Tyler served as senior economist to former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and to Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-TX). Appointed by President Clinton as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Tyler has worked closely with top policymakers like Lawrence Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. His international exposure was intensified when working at the World Bank in Washington.

Drawing on his international experience and contacts, Tyler co-authored the creation of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) in 1999. He envisioned DNDi as a non-profit NGO conducting research on medicines for the neglected diseases of the developing world. The international aid group

Doctors Without Borders (Me´decins Sans Frontie´res or MSF) endorsed the concept and provided critical seed funding to the Geneva-based NGO. MSF continues to support the $19 million budget in conjunction with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and private donors like the Gates Foundation. As a member of the DNDi audit committee, Tyler gained extensive exposure to Europe and economic systems across the globe. Coupled with his time in the U.S. Senate and Treasury, this experience gives Tyler an expansive perspective on the many variations of capitalism and democracy across the globe. Tyler is also treasurer of the international aid group Bikes for the World, which recycles American bicycles to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

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""Tyler explodes numerous myths... Controversial but well-grounded in data and fact. Anyone with an interest in economic policy ought to have a look.""

Kirkus Reviews

""[Tyler] provokes outrage with his impassioned portrait of an America where job security is a relic of the past.""

Publishers Weekly


""Tyler's timely and convincing book confirms what Americans feel in their bones: the economy is rigged against them and something is definitely wrong.""

Library Journal


""Several books have examined the effects of the recent recession, but few have dug as deeply into the root causes of [our] country's current economic malaise as George R. Tyler's What Went Wrong... Though his conclusions are undoubtedly controversial, Tyler grounds his arguments in data and facts, providing a deep exploration of our current economic situation and the pre-Reagan policies that, if implemented again, may lead us out.""

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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781937856717
  • Publisher: Benbella Books
  • Publisher Imprint: BenBella Books
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 576
  • Spine Width: 48 mm
  • Weight: 1001 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1937856712
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jul 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class... and What Other Countries Got Right
  • Width: 162 mm


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