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Flat broke in the free market

how globalization fleeced working people

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An edition of Flat broke in the free market (2009)

Flat broke in the free market

how globalization fleeced working people

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A powerful, accessible, and eye-opening analysis of the global economy.

Growing up in an African American working-class family in the Midwest, Jon Jeter watched the jobs undergirding a community disappear. As a journalist for the Washington Post (twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist), he reported on the free-market reforms of the IMF and the World Bank, which in a single generation created a transnational underclass.

Led by the United States, nations around the world stopped making things and starting buying them, imbibing a risky cocktail of deindustrialization, privatization, and anti-inflationary monetary policy. Jeter gives the consequences of abstract economic policies a human face, and shows how our chickens are coming home to roost in the form of the subprime mortgage scandal, the food crisis, and the fraying of traditional social bonds (marriage). From Rio de Janeiro to Shanghai to Soweto to Chicago’s South Side and Washington, DC, Jeter shows us how the economic prescriptions of “the Washington Consensus” have only deepened poverty—while countries like Chile and Venezuela have flouted the conventional wisdom and prospered.

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W.W. Norton & Co.
Language
English
Pages
232

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Cover of: Flat Broke in the Free Market
Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People
2009, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Cover of: Flat broke in the free market
Flat broke in the free market: how globalization fleeced working people
2009, W.W. Norton & Co.
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Flat Broke in the Free Market
Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People
2009, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English

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New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.3
Library of Congress
HF1713 .J48 2009, HF1713.J48 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
232

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Open Library
OL23080752M
Internet Archive
flatbrokeinfreem00jete
ISBN 13
9780393065077
LCCN
2009005045
OCLC/WorldCat
286488208
Library Thing
8003543
Goodreads
6280629

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