The Price of Inequality

Name: The Price of Inequality
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Senior Fellow Joseph E Stiglitz
ISBN: 9780393345063

Senior Fellow Joseph E Stiglitz

08/04/2013
W. W. Norton & Company

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Couverture de The Price of Inequality par Senior Fellow Joseph E Stiglitz

Résumé

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.