Forget about the best books of 2013. As an early Christmas gift, I’m going to tell you how to get one of the most important books of 2014 -- for free. It’s “Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People,” by Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein. You can download it -- at no charge -- here. Ho ho ho!
The book claims to be about jobs. In truth, it’s about an even more important subject: power. In particular, it’s about the economic power of ordinary workers -- how they lost it, and how they can regain it.
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