The age of austerity how scarcity will remake American politics

Summary: Provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years--and how citizens might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.

Record details

ISBN: 9780385535205 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0385535201 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (256 p.) : ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: the noose -- Austerity -- The moral underpinnings of partisan conflict -- The economics of immigration -- Race -- Brutality, coarseness, and the fracture of American politics -- The big one.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.