Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1891843257 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 684 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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But these gaps, author Sam Pizzigati shows in his compelling new book, are undermining nearly every aspect of our lives, from our health to our happiness, from our professions to our pastimes, from our arts to our Earth.Greed and Good both reveals the horrific price we pay for tolerating inequality and dissects the case for greed, the old saws that apologists for inequality regularly trot out to justify the mammoth concentrations of wealth that tower all around us. Should we care that wealth in the United States is unequally distributed — and getting more so every year? Should we worry that America's most wealthy, in just a generation, have more than doubled their share of the nation's wealth?Our nation's highest leaders certainly don't think so. They either ignore, or dismiss, the huge gaps in income and wealth that divide us. These concentrations, Greed and Good argues, can and must be cut down to democratic size. And Greed and Good, in clear-headed and fascinating prose, even shows how.
big ideas for rescuing American ideas from plutocracy and for restoring our bedrock values of equality and equality. -- Jeff Faux, distinguished fellow, co-founder, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DCWhat price do we pay for inequality in America? No book exposes the full cost better than Greed and Good. -- William Greider, author, "The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy"If you care about your country, read this book. -- Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.), chair, House Democratic Policy Committee
. Sam Pizzigati is an American labor journalist whose articles and op-eds about inequality have appeared in the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Los Angeles Times, and a host of other periodicals. Pizzigati currently serves on the boards of directors of Progressive Maryland, the stateis top labor and public interest g