{"product_id":"the-expendables-isbn-9780735279414","title":"The Expendables","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Your World Is About to Get A Whole Lot Smaller\u003c\/i\u003e, a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization, and how the blowback—from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe—will change the developed world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReal wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint idea from the distant past. If it seems that the middle class is in retreat around the developed world, it is.\u003cbr\u003e     Former CIBC World Markets Chief Economist Jeff Rubin argues that all this was foreseeable back when Canada, the United States and Mexico first started talking free trade. Labour argued then that manufacturing jobs would move to Mexico. Free-trade advocates disagreed. Today, Canadian and American factories sit idle. More steel is used to make bottlecaps than cars. Meanwhile, Mexico has become one of the world's biggest automotive exporters. And it's not just NAFTA. Cheap oil, low interest rates, global deregulation and tax policies that benefit the rich all have the same effect: the erosion of the middle class.\u003cbr\u003e     Growing global inequality is a problem of our own making, Rubin argues. And solving it won't be easy if we draw on the same ideas about capital and labour, right and left, that led us to this cliff. Articulating a vision that dovetails with the ideas of both Naomi Klein and Donald Trump, \u003ci\u003eThe Expendables\u003c\/i\u003e is an exhilaratingly fresh perspective that is at once humane and irascible, fearless and rigorous, and most importantly, timely. GDP is growing, the stock market is up and unemployment is down, but the surprise of the book is that even the good news is good for only one percent of us.\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BUSINESS BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rubin . . . leverages his firm grasp of geopolitics and economics to offer not only a primer on macroeconomics, but also on how globalization—that is, the process of opening up international markets—has routed the middle class and propped up the elite.” —\u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“The latest from the author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller\u003c\/i\u003e continues his disruptive ways in this analysis of how the collapse of union membership and the near obsolescence of full-time employment is squeezing out the middle class. . . . [Rubin] is a fiercely independent thinker.” —\u003ci\u003eNOW\u003c\/i\u003eJEFF RUBIN is a Canadian economist and bestselling author. A world-leading expert on trade and energy, and former chief economist and chief strategist at CIBC World Markets, he recently served as a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance founded by Jim Balsillie. His first book, \u003ci\u003eWhy Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller\u003c\/i\u003e, was an international bestseller, and was favourably reviewed in both \u003ci\u003eTIME \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e. It was the number-one-selling non-fiction book in Canada and won the National Business Book Award, and was longlisted for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Since then, he has written multiple bestsellers, including \u003ci\u003eThe End of Growth\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Carbon Bubble, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Expendables\u003c\/i\u003e..","brand":"Vintage Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304682672357,"sku":"NP9780735279414","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780735279414.jpg?v=1767739246","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-expendables-isbn-9780735279414","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}