The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy

by Scott Burns and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Book Overview

How America went bankrupt and how we can save ourselves--as a country and as individuals--from economic disaster.

The United States is bankrupt, flat broke. Thanks to accounting that would make Enron blush, America's insolvency goes far beyond what our leaders are disclosing. The United States is a fiscal basket case, in worse shape than the notoriously bailed-out countries of Greece, Ireland, and others. How did this happen? InThe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262016729
• ISBN13: 9780262016728
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher