{"id":3626,"date":"2011-04-14T09:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2011-04-14T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:59:24","slug":"sonic-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2011\/04\/sonic-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2011\/04\/sonic-boom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3681\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/sonic-boom-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/sonic-boom.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1834\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sonic Boom cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/sonic-boom-196x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/sonic-boom-670x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3681\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2011\/04\/sonic-boom-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sonic Boom cover\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/sonic-boom-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/sonic-boom-670x1024.jpg 670w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/sonic-boom-624x953.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/04\/sonic-boom.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>by <strong>Gregg Easterbrook \u201976<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>Easterbrook is the author of six books\u00a0and contributing editor to the <em>Atlantic <\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif\">Monthly<\/span><\/em> and the <em>New Republic<\/em>. In his\u00a0previous book, \u201cThe Progress Paradox:\u00a0How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse,\u201d he argued that, by all standards, American\u00a0life has been getting better and better for generations, and compelled us to use our prosperity to\u00a0improve the lives of the disenfranchised around the world.\u00a0Here he extends his theory to the now-familiar territory of globalization, showing how since World War II the greatest nations of the world have put more of their resources\u00a0into economic growth and less into military spending.\u00a0According to Easterbrook, this has all been fueled by\u00a0reductions in import tariffs and relaxed trade restrictions.<\/p>\n<p><em>ISBN-13: 978-0812974133. Published by Random House; 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gregg Easterbrook \u201976 Easterbrook is the author of six books\u00a0and contributing editor to the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic. In his\u00a0previous book, \u201cThe Progress Paradox:\u00a0How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse,\u201d he argued that, by all standards, American\u00a0life has been getting better and better for generations, and compelled us to use our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2011","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}