While America aged : how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis / Roger Lowenstein.

By:

Lowenstein, Roger

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, USA, 2009.Description: 274 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780143115380
0143115383

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LOC classification:

HD7125 L917
J33e 2009

Contents:

Introduction -- Who owns General Motors? -- Walter Reuther and the Treaty of Detroit -- The anti-Reuther -- An entitled class -- On strike! -- Finest city -- Pension plot -- The bill comes due -- Conclusion : the way out.

Summary: A call-to-action evaluation of the economic dangers being posed by the retiring generation's pensions and health-care needs offers sobering insight into how pensions work in America and why they are threatening major companies and public institutions.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-266) and index.

A call-to-action evaluation of the economic dangers being posed by the retiring generation's pensions and health-care needs offers sobering insight into how pensions work in America and why they are threatening major companies and public institutions.

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