Balance: The Economics of Great Powers From Ancient Rome to Modern America [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Hubbard, Glenn; Kane, Tim

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 2013

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Fine unread condition red boards, white spine, and red spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane; Acknowledgments; Authors' Dedication; Appendix; References; Notes and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, graphs, maps, and charts. "Hubbard and Kane synthesize economics, politics, and psychology to develop a new, audacious theory of why countries decline. Compulsory reading for anyone who wants to understand the major issues that America now faces and whether decline can be averted, or will instead become inevitable." - James Robinson, coauthor of Why Nations Fail. "A book with riveting historical perspective for careful thought about where we are and where we can go if we get it right." - The Honorable George P. Shultz, Hoover Institution. "In this groundbreaking book, two economists explain why economic imbalances cause civil collapse - and why the United States could be next. From the Ming Dynasty to Ottoman Turkey to imperial Spain, the Great Powers of the world emerged as the greatest economic, political, and military forces of their time - only to collapse into rubble and memory. What is at the root of their demise - and how can the United States stop this pattern from happening again? A quarter century after Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane present a bold, sweeping account of why powerful nations and civilizations break down under the heavy burden of economic imbalance. Introducing a profound new measure of economic power, Balance traces the triumphs and mistakes of imperial Britain, the paradox of superstate California, the long collapse of Rome, and the limits of the Japanese model of growth. Most importantly, Hubbard and Kane compare the twenty-first-century United States to the empires of old and challenge Americans to address the real problems of our country's dysfunctional fiscal imbalance. If there is not a new economics and politics of balance, they show that there will be an inevitable demise ahead." - from the inner front jacket flap. Seller Inventory # 007732

Bibliographic Details

Title: Balance: The Economics of Great Powers From ...

Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Lee-Mui, Ruth (book design); Ward, Jeffrey L. (maps); McKeveny, Tom (jacket design)

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition