3.
Paul Preston, “
4.
Speech delivered by Senator Joseph McCarthy before the Senate on June 14, 1951, from
5.
Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,”
6.
The term comes from Lisa McGirr,
7.
Peter Viereck, “The New Conservatism: One of Its Founders Asks What Went Wrong,”
8.
Jacob Hacker,
9.
http://www.time.com/time/ time100/builder/profile/ reuther2.html.
10.
Rick Perlstein,
11.
Paul Krugman, “Who Was Milton Friedman?”
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Irving Kristol, “American Conservatism, 1965–1995,”
13.
Ibid.
14.
Dan Balz, “Team Bush: The Iron Triangle,”
15.
Franklin Foer, “Swimming with Sharks,”
16.
As posted at the Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-perlstein/i-didnt-like-nixon- _b_11735.html, Dec. 5, 2005.
7 THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
1.
“Public Says Work Life Is Worsening, but Most Workers Remain Satisfied with Their Jobs,” Pew Center for People and Press, Labor Day, 2006, http://pewresearch.org/assets/social/pdf/Jobs.pdf.
2.
Dean Baker of the Center for Economic Policy Research estimates that “usable” productivity growth—the increase in the net value produced per U.S. worker-hour adjusted for rising consumer prices—was 47.9 percent between 1973 and 2006. However, nonwage labor costs rose due to rising payroll taxes, rising health care costs, and other factors, so that the amount available for wages rose about 36 percent. Dean Baker, “The Productivity to Paycheck Gap: What the Data Show,” at www.cepr.net, Apr. 2007.
3.
Edward Lazear, speech given at the Hudson Institute, “The State of the U.S. Economy and Labor Market,” Washington, D.C., May 2, 2006.
4.
Piketty and Saez, “Income Inequality.”
5.
Levy and Temin, “Inequality and Institutions.”
