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Billionaires' Ball Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality

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ISBN-10: 0807003395

ISBN-13: 9780807003398

Edition: 2012

Authors: Linda McQuaig, Neil Brooks

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The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and the very functioning of democracy. As McQuaig and Brooks illustrate, it's no accident that the United States claims the most billionaires but suffers from among the highest rates of infant mortality and crime, the shortest life expectancy, and the lowest rates of social mobility and electoral political participation in the developed…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 3/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.35" wide x 9.29" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Journalist and Canadian bestselling author Linda McQuaig has a reputation for challenging the establishment. Winner of Canada's National Newspaper Award and an Atkinson Fellowship for Journalism in Public Policy, she has written for "The Globe and Mail, National Post, Montreal Gazette," and numerous national magazines. She now writes a weekly political column on the op-ed page of "The Toronto Star."

Return of the Plutocrats
Why Pornography Is the Only True Free Market
Millionaires and the Crash of 1929
Billionaires and the Crash of 2008
Why Bill Gates Doesn't Deserve His Fortune
Why Other Billionaires Are Even Less Deserving
Hank Aaron and the Myths about Motivation
Taking the Fun out of Tax Havens
Why Billionaires Are Bad for Your Health
Why Billionaires Are Bad for Democracy
The True Badge of Citizenship
Revamping the Ovarian Lottery
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