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200 1. $a Comeback $b Texte imprimé $e America's new economic boom $f Charles R. Morris
210 .. $a New York $c PublicAffairs $d cop. 2013
215 .. $a 1 vol. (x-179 p.) $c illustrations $d 21 cm
300 .. $a Bibliogr. p.159-170 and index
327 1. $a The manufacturing/energy nexus. Shale country ; An unconventional revolution ; The
return of the whales ; The dark side and how to deal with it ; The rest of the economy.
Cycles ; Rebuilding America ; Cognitive dissonance ; WrapUp.
330 .. $a The author's The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) warned of the impending financial
crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, he reveals that the United States
is on the brink of a strong recovery from the 2008 global financial crisis that could
last for twenty years or more, claiming that such booming new industries as shale-based
oil will generate millions of new jobs and tame inherited deficits. The great economic
boom times in American history have come because of fortuitous discoveries. Natural
resources (coal first, then oil) fueled vast economic and industrial expansions, which
in turn helped create and supply new markets. The last genuine economic game changer
was the technology boom of the 1990s, which gave the U.S. a global competitive advantage
for a while based on electronics and silicon. The author was one of the first writers
and analysts in the U.S. to predict that the tech boom would lead to a period of sustained
economic growth. In defiance of the recessionary times (in 1990), he saw the coming
boom. Now, in 2013, he sees the threshold of another. This time the gift is natural
gas. The amount and distribution of gas in American shale is so vast that it has the
potential to transform the manufacturing economy, creating jobs across the country,
and requiring a new infrastructure that will benefit the nation as a whole. Because
of fracking, jobs that once would have been outsourced abroad will return home, America
can become a net exporter of energy, and cheap energy will provide the opportunity
for innovation and competition. In light of this new opportunity, and other complementary
developments the author explores in this book, the U.S. ought to be approaching the
future with a robust self-confidence it has not experienced in a while. But we could
fumble it away. The gold-rush style of shale boom companies does not make them good
neighbors. A counter-reaction could put their industry, and the new era of national
prosperity, at risk. We also have a political system that has the capacity to spoil
the benefits of this huge boon. If the wealth locked in the continental shelf is not
shared for the general economic good, but is instead exploited in short-term profiteering,
then many of the opportunities that exist will be choked off by a few very rich corporations.
Managing the great bonus of the vast store of cheap energy is going to become a defining
political challenge in the years ahead
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