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A Burlington Reads special event.
An economist and writer for The Globe and Mail, Jeff Rubin the author of the award-winning and number one bestseller, “Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller.” The former CIBC World Markets chief economist is also the author of “The End of Growth.”
Real 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.
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, The Expendables 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. (Excerpted from penguinrandomhouse.ca)
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington, Shoreline Room
NEW in 2020 The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization by Jeff Rubin
onsite & street parking
free after 6 pm.
