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The age of oversupply : overcoming the greatest challenge to the global economy / Daniel Alpert.

by Alpert, Daniel (Economist)

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New York : Portfolio/Penguin, c2013.

Supply and demand.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

United States -- Economic policy -- 2009-

9781591845966 (hardback) :

1591845963 (hardback)

280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction : the endless slump -- The rise of oversupply : how the emerging nations remade the global economy -- Out of balance : debts, surpluses, and the broken global economy -- Making the worst of it : bad policy, denial, and decline -- Let them eat debt : stagnating incomes, credit bubbles, and the road to crisis -- Nations in neutral : the output gap and the vanishing of wealth -- The empty toolbox : why policy makers can't fix the economy - The detour economy : how advanced countries are dodging the real economic challenges -- Bad values : why sticky wages and prices block a real recovery -- Blind spots : the failure of economic leadership -- The stability imperative : a responsible approach to economic policy -- Underwater no more : how to finally put the great credit bubble behind us -- Rebuild and reform : a strategy for restoring growth -- Good debt, bad debt : dealing with deficits -- A global system that works : managing multilateralism -- In pursuit of pragmatism : tear down this ideological wall.

"Daniel Alpert, a progressive Wall Street banker and economist, argues that we are living in the age of oversupply. A global labor glut, a flood of excess productive capacity, and the persistent availability of cheap money have kept the developed world in a perpetual slump--which is unlikely to right itself without new policy solutions. For decades, economists and political leaders failed to see the signs of what became a cataclysmic shift in the global economy. Distracted by a technology boom and massive debt bubble, advanced nations failed to assess the full impact of the flood of labor and capital unleashed by the end of socialist economies until the most recent financial crisis exposed it. As the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and others continue to poach jobs from Western Europe, Japan, and the United States, prosperity in the developed world remains under threat"--

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