The American Disease - Hardcover

Lodge, George C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394529030 ISBN 13: 9780394529035

Publisher: Knopf, 1984

Analyzes the problems that face the American economy, discusses the interconnected goals of U.S. labor, business, and government, and recommends a new approach to U.S. economic policy

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About the Author:

George C. Lodge was born in Boston in 1927, and after two years in the Navy was graduated from Harvard College in 1950. He was a reporter on the Boston Herald for four years, and from 1954 to 1961 served with the U.S. Deperatment of Labor, first as director of information and later as assistant secretary for international affairs. In 1962 he was the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, and then joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School, where he is now professor of business administration. In addition to the present work, he is the author of Spearhead of Democracy: Labor in Developing Countries; Engines of Change: United States Interests and Revolution in Latin America; and The New American Ideology. Mr. Lodge is married and the father of six children.

Review:

"A masterful analysis of America's deteriorating economic situation with some arresting recommendations about how to improve it."

-Publisher's Weekly

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