I picked up this book back around 2002 as I was learning, first hand, about the concept of "down-sizing." It is a book about Common Sense Economics and how the United States, by off-shoring its product manufacturing and resource refinement, was giving away its economic growth to the foreign countries. With a growing trade imbalance and producing "products" that have no resources (i.e., financial services, brokerage services, paper investments, etc.) that would be unsustainable compared to digging and growing resources and manufacturing them into finished goods to trade over seas. It was a foreboding crystal ball that I hoped would turn itself around.
I lent the book to a colleague at work as we are both in daily discussion about this economy and watching the news of our leadership's latest stimulation package. I will have more to say about that when he gets a chance to read a few chapters.
It isn't a book about the sky falling, so much as it is an awakening to make change.
You can find the book on Amazon, "Unsustainable: How Economic Dogma is Destroying American Prosperity", by Eamonn Fingleton.
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