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Chad Broughton

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in Cincinnati, Ohio, The United States

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I was born to little fanfare, I'll admit, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a decisively mediocre city, aside from its symphony and ice cream. I spent much of my youth in Batesville, a small town in southeastern Indiana, which is a cool place to ride a dirt bike and skin your knees. After Indiana U. as an undergrad, I received my PhD from the Department of Sociology at UChicago in 2001 and then taught at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, for five years. That’s where I got all wrapped up in a somewhat embarrassingly long research project that culminated in Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities. Since 2006, I've been a senior lecturer in Public Policy Studies in the College, which is an ongoing challenge that I mostl ...more

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	Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities 4.16 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escaping Death's Grip: An Autobiography from the Streets of Chiraq by James Reed, Chad Broughton (Goodreads Author) (Afterword), Leah Kessler (Preparation) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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1. Given your academic background, readers might find this book a little intimidating. How would you describe it to somebody who claims not to like books about economics?

I would describe it as a book about ordinary people caught up in a time of extraordinary economic change—the dilemmas they face, how they adapt, where they fall down, how they pick themselves up. I tried to write an engaging a boo Read more of this blog post »

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