George R Tyler

Gebundenes Buch

What Went Wrong

How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class... and What Other Countries Got Right

Beschreibung

Economic inequality in the United States is now closer to a third-world country than to our first-world peers, and is growing. Tyler gives a fact-based analysis of how America got on the wrong track and what the nation can do to return to greatness.

Autor

George Tyler is an economist who has extensive private- and public-sector exposure to international issues and foreign economics and political systems. Author of What Went Wrong he worked in the United States Senate for 18 years. Tyler served as senior economist to former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and to Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-TX). Appointed by President Clinton as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Tyler has worked closely with top policymakers like Lawrence Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. His international exposure was intensified when working at the World Bank in Washington. Drawing on his international experience and contacts, Tyler co-authored the creation of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) in 1999. He envisioned DNDi as a non-profit NGO conducting research on medicines for the neglected diseases of the developing world. The international aid group Doctors Without Borders (Me´decins Sans Frontie´res or MSF) endorsed the concept and provided critical seed funding to the Geneva-based NGO. MSF continues to support the $19 million budget in conjunction with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and private donors like the Gates Foundation. As a member of the DNDi audit committee, Tyler gained extensive exposure to Europe and economic systems across the globe. Coupled with his time in the U.S. Senate and Treasury, this experience gives Tyler an expansive perspective on the many variations of capitalism and democracy across the globe. Tyler is also treasurer of the international aid group Bikes for the World, which recycles American bicycles to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Benbella Books
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 61mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9781937856717
• ISBN-10: 1937856712
• Artikelnr.: 36283503