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The good news is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a k a the Obama stimulus plan, is working just about the way textbook macroeconomics said it would. But that’s also the bad news — because the same textbook analysis says that the stimulus was far too small given the scale of our economic problems. Unless something changes drastically, we’re looking at many years of high unemployment.

...The trick is to take a close look at the bits which use words like 'leverage', 'teamwork' and more recently, 'rock star'.

...Modern capitalism's emphasis on flexibility, he says, has deprived employees of any sense of narrative in their working lives. They no longer acquire skills, develop them, become better at what they do and thus rise up the pay and promotion ladder....

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