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Clears up misconceptions about entitlement spending, argues that it will become an overwhelming burden on future workers
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This book should be read by everyone who wants to understand how government spending can be controlled. - Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University; ""A powerful analyses and policy prescriptions which will challenge every thoughtful person coping with the dilemma of providing humane, but cost effective, entitlements."" - Michael J. Boskin, Professor of Economics, Stanford University
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Neil Howe is a partner and co-founder of LifeCourse Associates, a Virginia-based consulting firm and senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A historian, economist, author, and speaker, he is the co-author (with William Strauss) of several books, including Generations, The Fourth Turning, and Millennials Rising.
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On Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future
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Condition: good, good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 430, figures, tables, footnotes, notes, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. Describes, in great detail and with compelling logic, how America finances our enormous entitlement programs through deficits instead of paying for them as we go and saving for the future. Seller Inventory # 34234
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Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 430pp. Tables, charts. Fine/near fine. Superb, tight first edition of this study co-authored by Peterson (1926-2018), noted investment banker and Richard Nixon's Secretary of Commerce, who boldly inscribes and signs the front flyleaf in black fineline: "To Bob Malott / With great respect / and gratitude for / your support of our / Budget effort / Pete Peterson." From the library of Robert Malott (1926-2018), noted Chicago businessman and CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist. Seller Inventory # 44312
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Peterson to Stockman. Bookplate present (a nice association copy - this bookplate is that of David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's Budget Director). First edition. Jacket is present with a little shelfwear, but nothing severe. Price on jacket flap is not clipped. Text clean and unmarked. First edition. Signed/autographed. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence. Seller Inventory # mon0000085934
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