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The high-risk society : peril and promise in the new economy

If you're like most Americans, you're better off than you were five years ago. The statistics tell us that times are good: inflation is down; growth, productivity, and profits are up; free markets and technological advances are spreading around the world. But you're paying a high price for prosperity: more intense, pervasive economic uncertainty than Americans have suffered at any time in the past fifty years. It takes many forms: job insecurity, fears about retirement

Print Book, English, ©1996
1st ed
Times Business, New York, ©1996