The U.S. may soon reach the point where it can’t rebuild its manufacturing base.
Louis Uchitelle
Louis Uchitelle writes on economics topics for The New York Timesand other publications. He is the author of The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences.
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Globalization, Union-Style
The challenge is to raise U.S. workers’ rights to the level that European workers enjoy — not to lower their rights to our level.
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It Wasn’t Deficit Reduction
The Roaring Nineties By Joseph E. Stiglitz, W.W. Norton and Company, 379 pages, $25.95 Like many academic economists, Joseph E. Stiglitz went into government hoping to tutor as well as to serve. Unlike most, Stiglitz has significant doubts about whether markets usually work as advertised. His research in this genre won him the […]