The price of inequality : how today's divided society endangers our future / Joseph E. Stiglitz
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TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.Description: xxxi, 414p. ; 25cmISBN: - 9780393088694 (hbk.)
- 0393099695
- 9780393099690
- 9780393099694
- 0393088693 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-397) and index.
America's 1 (one) 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 (one) percent -- The way forward : another world is possible.
Examines how the wealthy classes have contributed to growing inequality in society and explains how the quest to increase wealth has hindered the country's economic growth as well as its efforts to solve its most pressing economic problems.