| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-529). |
| Contents |
Introduction : a tale of two taxes / Janet Byrne -- Advice from the 1 percent : lever up, drop out / Michael Lewis -- The widening gyre : inequality, polarization, and the crisis / Paul Krugman and Robin Wells -- Take a stand : sit in / Philip Dray -- The 5 percent / Michael Hiltzik -- Hidden in plain sight : the problem of silos and silences in finance / Gillian Tett -- What good is Wall Street? / John Cassidy -- Inequality and intemperate policy / Raghuram Rajan -- Your house as an ATM : the myth of homeownership / Bethany McLean -- Against political capture : occupiers, muckrakers, progressives / Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson -- A nation of business junkies / Arjun Appadurai -- Causes of financial crises past and present : the role of the this-time-is-different syndrome / Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff -- Government as tough love : sitting down with Robert Shiller / Brandon Adams -- Occupy Wall Street's anarchist roots / David Graeber -- Economic insecurity and inequality breed political instability / Nouriel Roubini -- A master class in occupation / Chris Hedges -- Is democracy still in the streets? / James Miller -- The arc of communism : lessons for Occupy Wall Street? / Robert M. Buckley -- Globalization and the perils of democracy / Pankaj Mishra -- "15M" : the indignados / Salvador Martí Puig -- In the footsteps of Salvador Allende : Chile and the Occupy Movement / Ariel Dorfman -- ¡Basta ya! : Chilean students say "enough" / Nora Lustig, Alejandra Mizala, and G. Eduardo Silva -- Occupying the Israeli street : the tents protest movement and social justice in the Holy Land / Neri Zilber -- From Tahrir to Zuccotti : justice but no peace in Egypt / Chris Stanton -- From resistance to revolution à la française / Robert Zaretsky -- Occupy the media : journalism for (and by) the 99 percent / Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan -- On the meaning of occupation / Michael Greenberg -- Unions build the middle class / David Madland, Karla Walter, and Nick Bunker -- Occupy Wall Street : the first quarter and beyond / George Gresham -- Where is the demand for redistribution? / Ilyana Kuziemko and Michael I. Norton -- U.S. cultural decline : the overlooked intangibles / Brandon Adams -- Civil society at ground zero / Rebecca Solnit -- The making of the American 99 percent and the collapse of the middle class / Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich -- Occupy K Street / Paul Volcker -- Interview with Emmanuel Saez / Kathleen Maclay -- Taxing high earnings / Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez -- Commentary / J. Bradford DeLong -- Boycott! : Michael Lewis interviews himself / Michael Lewis -- Reforming Western capitalism / Martin Wolf -- How Occupy Wall Street can restore the clout of the 99 percent / Scott Turow -- Psychopaths, Inc. : on corporate personhood / Joel Bakan -- Occupy democracy / Robert B. Reich -- Taxing the 1 percent of the 1 percent / David Cay Johnston -- The short sell : an interview with Matt Taibbi / Tom Verlaine -- Smart loans / Eliot Spitzer -- Enough with occupying Wall Street : it's time to start preoccupying Wall Street / Lawrence Weschler -- Reframing the debate / Tyler Cowen and Veronique de Rugy -- Voluntary financial transactions tax / Brandon Adams -- Medicare for all / Jeff Madrick -- Countering the dangers of procyclicality / Daniel Gross -- Principal reduction : how to reduce the mortgage burden / Felix Salmon -- How bankruptcy contributed to the mortgage crisis and how it could help the economy recover / Michelle J. White and Wenli Li -- Occupy global capitalism / Jeffrey D. Sachs -- Debt jubilee / Michael Hudson -- Another way to resist Wall Street : copies, smuggling, and "globalization from below" / Gordon Mathews -- Coda : "the last capitalist on Wall Street" / Brandon Adams. |
| Subject |
Occupy movement.
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Occupy movement -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Income distribution -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Equality -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Protest movements -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Byrne, Janet.
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Wells, Robin.
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| ISBN |
9780316220217 |
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0316220213 |
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