After Globalization: Crisis and Disintegration

by Robert K Schaeffer

Book Overview

In the 1980s, U.S. officials adopted tax and monetary policies that channeled huge new resources into Wall Street, which fueled a stock market boom. To increase profits and payouts to investors as stock prices soared, corporate managers consolidated businesses, outsourced manufacturing to low-wage countries, and adopted new technologies to increase productivity. Government officials then facilitated mergers and negotiated free trade agreements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032056096
• ISBN13: 9781032056098
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"