Seeds of Destruction
Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity

  • Title:

    Seeds of Destruction
  • Hardcover Price:

    26.99
  • Hardcover ISBN:

    978-0137027736
  • Hardcover Dimensions:

    5.4" x 8.4"
  • 288 Hardcover pages

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In this book, a top Republican and Democratic economist explain why Obama's economic policies are failing...and offer a commonsense blueprint for reigniting long-term growth and prosperity for all Americans. They show how to overhaul the tax system, increase business investment, slash government spending, control entitlements, and even rebuild American manufacturing.

R. Glenn Hubbard is a visiting scholar at AEI.

Praise for Seeds of Destruction

"Hubbard and Navarro propose a set of realistic solutions. The authors bring their vast academic and policy experience to bear on weighty issues such as U.S. oil dependence, health-care reform, Medicare, and housing imbalances. Their solutions have a distinctly bipartisan flavor."

--Library Journal


"This is a good and useful book."

--Financial Times


"Hubbard and Navarro provide a cogent analysis of America's dangerous economic decline as well as a carefully thought out plan for recovery based on a manufacturing renaissance."

--Clyde Prestowitz, Founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute, and author of The Betrayal of American Prosperity and Three Billion New Capitalists


"A well-argued--and exceedingly timely--call to action for the White House and Congress to end partisan political bickering and move the American economy back to sound principles like free markets, entrepreneurship, and a renewed manufacturing base that will restore our nation's greatness. Hubbard and Navarro focus a bipartisan perspective on practical policy reform."

--Larry M. Wortzel, Ph.D., Commissioner and former Chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission


"It is time for a clean sheet of paper that creates the ultimate focus on creating real jobs and driving the success of our private sector by significantly improving our global competitiveness and not further eroding it. Kudos to Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro for doing just that!"

--Dan DiMicco, Chairman, President, and CEO, Nucor Corporation


"Seeds of Destruction is everything that Washington policymaking is not: sober, lucid, reasoned, timely, bipartisan, and constructive. The United States is on a path to greater danger and diminished aspirations. Hubbard and Navarro illuminate the path to fulfilling this generation's obligation to leave behind a nation with greater freedom and prosperity than it inherited."

--Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum, and former Director of the Congressional Budget Office (2003-2005)


"Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro combine their unique experiences in government and politics with their crystal-clear economic insights to produce a lively and compelling account of the origins of the financial crisis and the problems now plaguing the American economy. The book convincingly explains how government policy planted the seeds of destruction and how a change in government policy can root them out and plant the seeds of prosperity. Their diagnoses and remedies should be read, studied carefully, and applied."

--John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and former Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Finance


"A thoughtful and politically provocative diagnosis of America's economic ills."

--Kenneth S. Rogoff, coauthor of This Time is Different, and Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University


"This book is a 'must-read' for all persons who are concerned about our economic future. It shows the disastrous folly of our current economic policies and, more important, it lays out the proper policies to achieve a sound and prosperous economic future."

--John Cogan, Leonard and Shirley Ely Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Professor of Public Policy Program, Stanford University; former Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Reagan administration


"This is a compact blockbuster of a book that gives six reasons why the U.S. economy has sunk so far and offers ten initiatives that the authors believe will lift us back up. It spares neither political camp and it appeals to both camps to take actions that will repair the damage they have caused over the past decade."

--Edmund Phelps, McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University, and 2006 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science

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About the Author

 

R. Glenn
Hubbard
  • Glenn Hubbard, a former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, is currently the dean of Columbia Business School. He specializes in public and corporate finance and financial markets and institutions. He has written more than ninety articles and books, including two textbooks, on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics, and public policy. He has served as a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Treasury Department and as a consultant to, among others, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
  • Assistant Info

    Name: Veronika Polakova
    Phone: 202-862-4880
    Email: veronika.polakova@aei.org

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