Four out of five Americans like to think of themselves as middle-class. They’re fooling themselves, argues the author, a distinguished economist: the real middle class is smaller, poorer, yet making out better than some people think.
Benders of such books ;is THE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHERS or THE FUTURE As HISTORY knolo Mr. Heilbroner’s talent for illuminating complex economics and complex personalities with bright and accurate prose, He studied at Harvard and is visiting professor of economics on the graduate faculty of Manhattan’s New School for Social Research: Currently he is working on a large-scale history of the industrialization of America.