THE ZERO-SUM SOCIETY: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change by Thurow, Lester C - 1980

New York, NY: Basic Books, 1980. First Edition, 5th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/trace smudge to first title page. Charcoal linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light edge wear & closed tear to back corner tip. Socio-economics. Critical analysis of US challenges of the 1970s. Lester C. Thurow (1938 - 2016), advisor to George McGovern's 1972 bid for presidency, forwards income redistribution as a major issue. Thurow argues the nation's economic problems istem from the US's inability to decide whose income ought rightly to increase versus whose ought justifiably to decline, and, ought winners compensate losers? In short, how to divide up the one pie. 8 chapters: 1, An Economy That No Longer Performs; 2, Energy; 3. Inflation; 4, Slow Economic Growth; 5, Environmental Problems; 6, Spreading Rules & Regulations; 7, Direct Redistributional Issues; and 8, Solving the Economic Problems of the 1980s.