{"product_id":"2940170179176","title":"Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite  different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly  concentrated in a few crowded coastal enclaves. Corporations and  investors are disproportionately developing technologies that benefit  the wealthiest Americans in the most prosperous areasamp;mdash;and destroying  middle class jobs elsewhere. To turn this tide, we must look to a  brilliant and all-but-forgotten American success story and embark on a  plan that will create the industries of the futureamp;mdash;and the jobs that go  with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1940, massive public investment  generated breakthroughs in science and technology that first helped win  WWII and then created the most successful economy the world has ever  seen. Private enterprise then built on these breakthroughs to create new  industriesamp;mdash;such as radar, jet engines, digital computers, mobile  telecommunications, life-saving medicines, and the internetamp;mdash;that  became the catalyst for broader economic growth that generated millions  of good jobs. We lifted almost all boats, not just the yachts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan  Gruber and Simon Johnson tell the story of this first American growth  engine and provide the blueprint for a second. It's a visionary,  pragmatic, sure-to-be controversial plan that will lead to job growth  and a new American economy in places now left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115044618480,"sku":"2940170179176","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170179176_p0.jpg?v=1763704244","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170179176","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}