Title The price of inequality : [how today's divided society endangers our future] / Joseph E. Stiglitz.

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	xxxi, 414 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-397) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	This work 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. In it the author, a Nobel Prize-winning economist puts forth a forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality. America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. Here the author exposes the efforts of well-heeled interests to compound their wealth in ways that have stifled true, dynamic capitalism. Along the way he examines the effect of inequality on our economy, our democracy, and our system of justice. He explains how inequality affects and is affected by every aspect of national policy, and offers a vision for a more just and prosperous future, supported by a concrete program to achieve that vision.
Subject	Income distribution -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Equality -- United States.
	United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
	Equality -- United States.
	Income distribution -- Social aspects -- United States.
	United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
	Inégalités sociales.
	Répartition du revenu.
	Capitalisme.
	Conditions sociales.
	Conditions économiques.
	Economie sociale.
	Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
	Monde.
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
	Income distribution -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00968686
	Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	2000-2099
ISBN	9780393088694 (hbk.)
	0393088693 (hbk.)

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