The Price of Inequality

How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

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Paperback | 1 May 2013

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The top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation's wealth. But as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in this best-selling critique of the economic status quo, this level of inequality is not inevitable. Rather, in recent years well-heeled interests have compounded their wealth by stifling true, dynamic capitalism and making America no longer the land of opportunity that it once was. They have made America the most unequal advanced industrial country while crippling growth, distorting key policy debates, and fomenting a divided society. Stiglitz not only shows how and why America's inequality is bad for our economy but also exposes the effects of inequality on our democracy and on our system of justice while examining how monetary policy, budgetary policy, and globalization have contributed to its growth. With characteristic insight, he diagnoses our weakened state while offering a vision for a more just and prosperous future.

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"The single most comprehensive counterargument to both Democratic neoliberalism and Republican laissez-faire theories. While credible economists running the gamut from center right to center left describe our bleak present as the result of seemingly unstoppable developments-globalization and automation, a self-replicating establishment built on 'meritocratic' competition, the debt-driven collapse of 2008-Stiglitz stands apart in his defiant rejection of such notions of inevitability. He seeks to shift the terms of the debate." -- Thomas B. Edsall - New York Times Book Review "An impassioned argument backed by rigorous economic analysis." -- Kirkus Reviews

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