Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry (New York: Basic Books, 1982);

Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon, and Thomas E. Weisskopf, Beyond the Waste Land (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983);

W. Edward Deming, Out of the Crisis (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1982);

Michael L. Dertouzos, Richard K. Lester, and Robert M. Solow, Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge (New York: Harper & Row Perennial Library, 1989);

Benjamin M. Friedman, Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After (New York: Random House, 1988);

Alice Hanson Jones, The Wealth of the Nation To Be (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980);

Paul M. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Random House, 1987);

Katherine S. Newman, Falling From Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American...