Zero-sum Society

By Lester Carl Thurow

Book Overview

Written during a period of acute economic stagnation in 1980, The Zero-Sum Society discusses the human implications of economic problem solving. Interpreting macroeconomics as a zero-sum game, Thurow proposes that the American economy will not solve its most trenchant problems-inflation, slow economic growth, the environment-until the political economy can support, in theory and in practice, the idea that certain members of society will have to bear the brunt of taxation and other government-sponsored economic actions. As relevant today as it was twenty years ago, The Zero-Sum Society offers a classic set of recommendations about the best way to balance government stewardship of the economy and the free-market aspirations of upwardly mobile Americans.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465093841
• ISBN13: 9780465093847
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.