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Flat broke in the free market : how globalization fleeced working people /

Two-time Pulitzer finalist Jon Jeter reports on the freemarket reforms of the IMF and the World Bank, which in a single generation created a transnational underclass by imbibing a risky cocktail of deindustrialization, privatization, and anti-inflationary monetary policy that have led to the subprim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jeter, Jon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2009]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Free trade > Social aspects.
International trade > Social aspects.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Economic policy > Social aspects.
Working class > Social conditions.
Globalization > Economic aspects.
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Summary:Two-time Pulitzer finalist Jon Jeter reports on the freemarket reforms of the IMF and the World Bank, which in a single generation created a transnational underclass by imbibing a risky cocktail of deindustrialization, privatization, and anti-inflationary monetary policy that have led to the subprime mortgage scandal, the food crisis, and the fraying of traditional social bonds (marriage).
Physical Description:xxiv, 232 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.
ISBN:9780393065077 (hbk.)
0393065073 (hbk.)