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

Categorie	Economie & Management
Boeknummer	#374499-XI34
Titel	The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Auteur	Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : W.W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave	2012
ISBN10	0393088693
ISBN13	9780393088694
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	About the problem of social inequality in the United States. 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 characteristic insight, Stiglitz examines o... (Lees verder)ur current state, then teases out its implications for democracy, for monetary and budgetary policy, and for globalization. He closes with a plan for a more just and prosperous future.
Pagina's	414
Conditie	Goed — Name on first free endpaper.
Prijs	€ 12,50

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