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: 9780393345063

ISBN-10: 0393345068

ISBN-13: 9780393345063

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joseph E. Stiglitz

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America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz exposes the efforts of well-heeled interests to compound their wealth in ways that have stifled true, dynamic capitalism. Along the way he examines the effect of inequality on our economy, our democracy, and our system of justice. Stiglitz explains how inequality affects and is affected by every aspect of national policy, and with characteristic insight he offers a vision for a more just and prosperous future,…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.30" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Joseph Stiglitz is professor of economics at Columbia University.



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Preface


Acknowledgments



America's 1 Percent Problem



Rent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal Society



Markets and Inequality



Why It Matters



A Democracy in Peril



1984 Is upon Us



Justice for All? How Inequality Is Eroding the Rule of Law



The Battle of the Budget



A Macroeconomic Policy and a Central Bank By and For the 1 Percent



The Way Forward: Another World Is Possible


Notes


Index