Peter Temin
Peter Temin is professor emeritus of economics at MIT. He is the coauthor of The Leaderless Economy and Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy
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The Vanishing Middle Class
- By: Peter Temin
- Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class.
Temin argues that American history and politics,... Read more
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