Stiglitz Joseph E.
The price of inequality : [how today's divided society endangers our future] - USA Norton 2012 - xxxi, 414 p
Ch 1. America's 1 Percent Problem
Ch 2. Rent seeking and the making of an unequal society
Ch 3. Markets and inequality
Ch 4. Why it matters
Ch 5. A democracy in peril
Ch 6. 1984 is upon us
Ch 7. Justice for all? How inequality is eroding the Rule of Law
Ch 8. The battle of the budget
Ch 9. A macroeconomic policy and a Central Bank by and for the 1 (one) percent
Ch 10. The way forward : another world is possible.
The top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. But as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in this best-selling critique of the economic status quo, this level of inequality is not inevitable. Rather, in recent years well-heeled interests have compounded their wealth by stifling true, dynamic capitalism and making America no longer the land of opportunity that it once was. They have made America the most unequal advanced industrial country while crippling growth, distorting key policy debates, and fomenting a divided society. Stiglitz not only shows how and why America’s inequality is bad for our economy but also exposes the effects of inequality on our democracy and on our system of justice while examining how monetary policy, budgetary policy, and globalization have contributed to its growth. With characteristic insight, he diagnoses our weakened state while offering a vision for a more just and prosperous future.
9780393088694
HC110.I5
The price of inequality : [how today's divided society endangers our future] - USA Norton 2012 - xxxi, 414 p
Ch 1. America's 1 Percent Problem
Ch 2. Rent seeking and the making of an unequal society
Ch 3. Markets and inequality
Ch 4. Why it matters
Ch 5. A democracy in peril
Ch 6. 1984 is upon us
Ch 7. Justice for all? How inequality is eroding the Rule of Law
Ch 8. The battle of the budget
Ch 9. A macroeconomic policy and a Central Bank by and for the 1 (one) percent
Ch 10. The way forward : another world is possible.
The top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. But as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in this best-selling critique of the economic status quo, this level of inequality is not inevitable. Rather, in recent years well-heeled interests have compounded their wealth by stifling true, dynamic capitalism and making America no longer the land of opportunity that it once was. They have made America the most unequal advanced industrial country while crippling growth, distorting key policy debates, and fomenting a divided society. Stiglitz not only shows how and why America’s inequality is bad for our economy but also exposes the effects of inequality on our democracy and on our system of justice while examining how monetary policy, budgetary policy, and globalization have contributed to its growth. With characteristic insight, he diagnoses our weakened state while offering a vision for a more just and prosperous future.
9780393088694
HC110.I5