Around the block
the business of a neighborhood
1st ed.
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Word Count
81,250 words, Guess
Page Count
325 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL670389M
- ISBN-100151000778
- OCLC Control Number36760092
- OCLC Control Numberaroundblockbusin00shac
- Library of Congress Control Number97016306
and 2 more
- Goodreads2880109
- LibraryThing1804687
Classifications
- DDC338.6/42/097471
- LCCHD2346.U52 N548 1997
Description
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 shop windows and in offices overhead. Around the Block 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 it builds social ties in a country mired by polarization. And we see of what neighborhoods are made and how they grow and change and become part of our hopes for ourselves and our families. In this very human story about work and community, Tom Shachtman writes not the economics of textbooks and graphs but the stuff of our lives.
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