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Hard times : the divisive toll of the economic slump /
"2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addressed the financial crisis, very little has be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven [Connecticut] ; London [England] :
Yale University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword to the paperback edition: �Recovery� 2015
- The poor: always with us, at least in this recovery
- Squeezed middle, narrowed futures
- Authorial note
- Introduction
- The shape of things to come
- 1 Not quite 1933
- 2 All in it together?
- 3 Mapping the black stuff
- Some more than others
- 4 Toil and trouble
- The many and the few
- The swelling ranks of the employed but exposed
- 5 Anxious individuals, unhappy homes
- Unhappy days
- Anxiety, far and wideEnding it all
- Torn asunder?
- 6 The small society
- 7 The long shadow
- Class action
- The young: dreams in the deep freeze
- The unemployed: blood on the tracks
- Future generations: your children will be next
- 8 A tale of two tragedies
- American neglect
- British blind panic
- 9 The veil of complacency
- 10 Shelter from the storm
- The Cameron conundrum
- Money matters
- From polarisation to persuasion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index