| Introduction: The Pendulum |
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PART I The Broken Bargain |
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4 How Concentrated Income at the Top Hurts the Economy |
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5 Why Policymakers Obsess About the Financial Economy Instead of About the Real One |
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6 The Great Prosperity: 1947-1975 |
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7 How We Got Ourselves into the Same Mess Again |
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8 How Americans Kept Buying Anyway: The Three Coping Mechanisms |
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9 The Future Without Coping Mechanisms |
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64 | (5) |
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10 Why China Won't Save Us |
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69 | (6) |
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79 | (3) |
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2 The Politics of Economics, 2010-2020 |
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3 Why Can't We Be Content with Less? |
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4 The Pain of Economic Loss |
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5 Adding Insult to Injury |
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92 | (9) |
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6 Outrage at a Rigged Game |
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PART III The Bargain Restored |
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1 What Should Be Done: A New Deal for the Middle Class |
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| Acknowledgments |
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147 | (2) |
| Notes |
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| Index |
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