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Around the Block: The Business of a Neighborhood
by Shachtman, Tom
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good, very good
- ISBN 10
- 0151000778
- ISBN 13
- 9780151000777
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace, c1997. First Edition. First Printing. very good, very good. 24 cm, 325, illus., rough spot to top right of front flyleaf
Synopsis
In Around the Block, Tom Shachtman makes Adam Smith's "invisible hand" visible in the daily life of a number of small businesses in an ordinary, middle class block in New York City. Looking at The Block's economic life over the course of a year, Shachtman explores the everyday tragedies and triumphs hidden from view behind the shop windows and in offices. Behind the abstractions of economists, a single block in the Chelsea section of Manhattan is the stage for the personal commitments and risks of small business-a father commits suicide so that his business can avoid bankruptcy; a Korean liquor store owner finds himself caught between tow worlds; a computer game programmer leaves her job and risks her career for an idea of her own. Shachtman puts a human face on the challenges that businesses weather every day. We see how small business is integral to America's national health, responsible for job growth while building social ties in a country mired by polarization. In this very human story about work and community, Tom Shachtman writes not the economics of textbooks and graphs buth the stuff of our lives.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16846
- Title
- Around the Block: The Business of a Neighborhood
- Author
- Shachtman, Tom
- Book Condition
- Used - very good, very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0151000778
- ISBN 13
- 9780151000777
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- c1997
- Keywords
- Neighborhood, AIDS, Business, Capitalism, Competition, New York City, Crime, Entrepreneurs, Middle Class
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