Getting from Here to There
"There" is a U.S. with adequate growth, full employment, food surpluses and a mostly domestic energy supply playing a leading part in a more cooperative world than we have nowadays. The "getting there" is laid out in a series of fairly short, concrete, readable chapters on all the key issues that are inevitably a bit uneven. The best put productivity, research & development, and related matters in a good historical perspective. The whole is given a certain tone by the thought that the world is on the upswing of a long economic cycle, so governments should be especially concerned with the supply side.

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