TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luce, Edward.
TI  - Time to start thinking: America and the spectre of decline 
SN  - 9781408702758 (hbk.)
U1  - 973.93 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Little, Brown
KW  -  United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
KW  -  United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
KW  -  United States -- Civilization -- 21st century
N1  - The graduations --
The lonely middle : why America's middle class continues to hollow out --
Leave no robot behind : why America's education system is still falling behind --
The Golden Goose : why America's lead in innovation can no longer be taken for granted --
Gulliver's travails : why bureaucracy is harming America's competitiveness --
Against itself : why America is becoming less governable --
Maybe we can't : why money continues to rule Washington --
An exceptional challenge : why the coming struggle to halt America's decline faces long odds.


N2  - On its present course, the US faces a world of rising new countries that will compete with it ever more fiecely as its own power is declining. In order to slow and improve this steady leakage of power, the US must change course internationally, economically and domestically. It must also restructure to remain the world's most competitive economy. And it must address quality of life issues and fairness at home.

But American politics is broken -- competing forces and interests have led to stasis. With change so tough, where now for a country where the middle classes are suffering as they have never suffered before, the pensions crisis is growing, the deficit out of sight, and radicalism waiting in the wings?
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