01854cam a2200241   4500001000500000005001700005008003900022010001600061020003200077082001500109100002100124245009500145250002600240260003800266300002600304504005100330505097200381520009801353650003101451650004101482650003801523651005101561738220181127183526.0910222s1992    nyu      b    001 0 eng  a   91050223  a0679736158 (pbk.) :c$12.0000a337.732201 aReich, Robert B.14aThe work of nations :bpreparing ourselves for 21st century capitalism /cRobert B. Reich.  a1st Vintage Books ed.  aNew York :bVintage Books,c1992.  axii, 339 p. ;c20 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aIntroduction : the national idea -- The origins of economic nationalism -- Economic nationalism and high-volume production -- The corporation and the national interest -- The national champion -- The national bargain -- The presumed problem -- From high volume to high value -- The new web of enterprise -- The diffusion of ownership and control -- The global web -- The end of the national champion -- The coming of irrelevance of corporate nationality -- The perils of vestigial thought -- The three jobs of the future -- A digression on symbolic analysis and market incentive -- American incomes -- Why the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer -- The education of the symbolic analyst (I) -- The education of the symbolic analyst (II) -- The problem restated -- The decline of public investment -- The uses of vestigial thought -- The new community -- The politics of secession -- Who is "us"? -- Afterword : national identity in a post-Soviet world.grt  aExamines the socio-economic questions that will be plaguing  the policy-makers of the future. 0aCapitalismzUnited States. 0aEconomic forecastingzUnited States. 0aInternational economic relations. 0aUnited StatesxEconomic conditionsy1981-2001.