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Updating America's social contract : economic growth and opportunity in the new century
Title:
Updating America's social contract : economic growth and opportunity in the new century
Author:
Penner, Rudolph Gerhard, 1936-
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Norton, [2000]

©2000
Physical Description:
190 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"An American Assembly book"--Cover.

"This volume was prepared as a background for an Assembly of forty-eight leaders ... that met at the Emory University Conference Center in Atlanta, June 10-13, 1999"--Pref.

At head of title: The American Assembly, Columbia University, in cooperation with the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute.

Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
An agenda for the radical middle -- The U.S. economy of the 1990s: a look back -- Will the "new economy" take us where we want to go? -- Inequality and opportunity: winners and losers in the new economy -- The unavoidable necessity of renegotiating the intergenerational compact.
ISBN:
9780393975796
Format :
Book