Bluestone, Barry : University of Massachusetts Boston
Barry Bluestone is Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Harrison, Bennett : Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bennett Harrison is professor of political economy and planning at MIT.
Review
"Harrison and Bluestone ... have painstakingly mobilized the evidence ... [and they] argue persuasively
that American managers failed their shareholders, their workers and their nation."
--James Tobin, New York Times Book Review
"For the past decade, America and Americans have been getting poorer. This book explains why. How well we
respond to the challenges the authors raise will substantially determine our economic future."
--Senator Edward M. Kennedy
"In lively, opinionated fashion, they portray an economy that has undergone huge challenges."
--Karen Pennar, Business Week
"Whether one agrees or disagrees with Harrison and Bluestone's basic arguments, their book will force any
thoughtful reader to consider seriously the effects of corporate restructuring, with federal government backing,
on the lives of the average citizens.... A timely, provocative, and important volume."
--William Julius Wilson, author of The Truely Disadvantaged
Perseus Books Group Web Site, March, 2000
Summary
This devastating critique by the authors of The Deindustrialization of America documents how the economic policies
of the Reagan era have damaged the American standard of living and suggests how this trend may be reversed.
Table of Contents
The Great U-Turn
"Zapping Labor"
Restructuring and the World of High Finance
The Laissez-Faire Affair
The Crisis of the American Dream
The Illusion of Solid Growth
Swings of the Pendulum
