Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Clifton, the chairman of Gallup and an expert in innovative polling, offers well-articulated arguments covering a variety of statistically relevant data and incorporates thoughtful suggestions regarding how to shore up America's crisis-besieged fiscal practices. In defining the true proportions of the catastrophic dearth of jobs, and presenting the future as a China-driven world economy, he explains classical versus behavior economics and looks at the importance of cities, universities, and individuals as part of the solution. Individuals, he believes, are key, as are high energy workplaces and schools that can produce future entrepreneurs. However, he notes that "approximately 30% of those students will drop out or fail to graduate on schedule.[giving] the rest of the developed world a huge advantage over the United States in the upcoming economic wars." Clifton deplores foreign ownership of American companies: "Any time an American company is lost to a foreign company, like Anheuser-Busch to InBev.all American flags should fly at half-staff." He argues that strong support of entrepreneurship can counter the stagnant GDP. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
