Price of Inequality How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

Name: Price of Inequality How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
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ISBN: 9780393088694

ISBN-10: 0393088693

ISBN-13: 9780393088694

Edition: 2012

Authors: Joseph E. Stiglitz

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The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable: moneyed interests compound their wealth by stifling true, dynamic capitalism. They have made America the most unequal advanced industrial country while crippling growth, trampling on the rule of law, and undermining democracy. The result: a divided society that cannot tackle its most pressing problems. With…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/11/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Joseph Stiglitz is professor of economics at Columbia University.