Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for

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Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factoryâ€”the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose practices, high wages, and regulated capital produced both robust economic growth and greater income equality. When high oil prices and economic competition from Japan and Germany battered the American economy, new policiesâ€”both international and domesticâ€”became necessary. But war was waged against inflation, rather than against unemployment, and the government promoted a balanced budget instead of growth. This, says Stein, marked the beginning of the age of finance and subsequent deregulation, free trade, low taxation, and weak unions that has fostered inequality and now the worst recession in sixty years.

Drawing on extensive archival research and covering the economic, intellectual, political, and labor history of the decade, Stein provides a wealth of information on the 1970s. She also shows that to restore prosperity today, America needs a new model: more factories and fewer financial houses.

Country	USA
Author	Judith Stein
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780300163292
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Yale University Press
Manufacturer	Yale University Press
NumberOfPages	384
PublicationDate	2010-03-13
Publisher	Yale University Press
ReleaseDate	2010-05-25
Studio	Yale University Press

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

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