The American Plutocracy
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Author | : Ronald P. Formisano |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1421417405 |
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This data-driven book offers insight into the fallacy of widespread opportunity, the fate of the middle class, and the mechanisms that perpetuate income disparity.
Author | : Milford Wriarson Howard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Wealth |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Chrystia Freeland |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2012-10-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1101595949 |
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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at breakneck speed. Most of these new fortunes are not inherited, amassed instead by perceptive businesspeople who see themselves as deserving victors in a cutthroat international competition. With empathy and intelligence, Plutocrats reveals the consequences of concentrating the world’s wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Propelled by fascinating original interviews with the plutocrats themselves, Plutocrats is a tour de force of social and economic history, the definitive examination of inequality in our time.
Author | : Kishore Mahbubani |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 9811668116 |
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This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination. The major strategic error that the West is now making is to refuse to accept this reality. The West needs to learn how to act strategically in a world where they are no longer the number 1. Part Two The Return of Asia. From the years 1 to 1820, the largest economies in the world were Asian. After 1820 and the rise of the West, however, great Asian civilizations like China and India were dominated and humiliated. The twenty-first century will see the return of Asia to the center of the world stage. Part Three The Peaceful Rise of China. The shift in the balance of power to the East has been most pronounced in the rise of China. While this rise has been peaceful, many in the West have responded with considerable concern over the influence China will have on the world order. Part Four Globalization, Multilateralism and Cooperation. Many of the world's pressing issues, such as COVID-19 and climate change, are global issues and will require global cooperation to deal with. In short, human beings now live in a global village. States must work with each other, and we need a world order that enables and facilitates cooperation in our global village.
Author | : Sam Pizzigati |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 160980435X |
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The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way. Except they don't. A century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domineering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become museums and college campuses, and America had become a vibrant, mass middle class nation, the first and finest the world had ever seen. Americans today ought to be taking no small inspiration from this stunning change. After all, if our forbears successfully beat back grand fortune, why can't we? But this transformation is inspiring virtually no one. Why? Because the story behind it has remained almost totally unknown, until now. This lively popular history will speak directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. By tracing how average Americans took down plutocracy over the first half of the 20th Century--and how plutocracy came back-- The Rich Don't Always Win will outfit Occupy Wall Street America with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream.
Author | : Richard L. Hasen |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-01-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300216742 |
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Campaign financing is one of today’s most divisive political issues. The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption. The right protests that the real aim of campaign limits is to suppress political activity and protect incumbents. Meanwhile, money flows freely on both sides. In Plutocrats United, Richard Hasen argues that both left and right avoid the key issue of the new Citizens United era: balancing political inequality with free speech. The Supreme Court has long held that corruption and its appearance are the only reasons to constitutionally restrict campaign funds. Progressives often agree but have a much broader view of corruption. Hasen argues for a new focus and way forward: if the government is to ensure robust political debate, the Supreme Court should allow limits on money in politics to prevent those with great economic power from distorting the political process.
Author | : Dale L. Johnson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2017-02-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319490435 |
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This book aims to further an understanding of present day America by exploring counter-hegemony to the rule of capital and offering guidelines for strategizing change proceeding from the dialectic of What Is and What Ought to Be. The author analyzes neoliberal global order and its political expressions through discussions of the dominance of finance capital in the late twentieth century, the triumph of ideology, the closing of avenues to reform, the problem of the captive state, and a sociological analysis of rule by “divide and conquer.” The book concludes with a look at the history of movement politics in culture, arts, economics, and politics. It resounds with a hope that challenges to hegemony can use many paths to change, of which the electoral path is but one of many fronts, in the long-term struggle for radical reform.
Author | : Jacob S. Hacker |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2020-07-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1631496859 |
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A New York Times Editors’ Choice An “essential” (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals — and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy. In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing “populists,” the Republican Party came to serve its plutocratic masters to a degree without precedent in modern global history. To maintain power while serving the 0.1 percent, the GOP has relied on increasingly incendiary racial and cultural appeals to its almost entirely white base. Calling this dangerous hybrid “plutocratic populism,” Hacker and Pierson show how, over the last forty years, reactionary plutocrats and right-wing populists have become the two faces of a party that now actively undermines democracy to achieve its goals against the will of the majority of Americans. Based on decades of research and featuring a new epilogue about the intensification of GOP radicalism after the 2020 election, Let Them Eat Tweets authoritatively explains the doom loop of tax cutting and fearmongering that defines the Republican Party—and reveals how the rest of us can fight back.
Author | : Milford Wriarson Howard |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230399065 |
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX C. OBJECT LESSON! Here is the story of one year of the gold standard. It is a story told in figures--"-figures furnished by the sworn oflieers of the various States of this Union--a story the truth of which there can be no gainsaying., The advocates of the single gold standard continue to assert that the "average financial condition of the farmers is improving all the time." The statement was made in the vain hope of demonstrating to the people of America, and particularly to the people of the South, that. they are growing richer under the operations of the gold standard. There is a very simple and a very easy way to ascertain the exact facts concerning this point, and the facts are here presented. It is, indeed, a lesson of the gold standard. The table of figures presented here is one which anybody can understand. It shows the change in the property valuations of the different States of the Union from 1893 to 1894. And in showing this it presents what might be termed an official history of the operations of the single gold standard in a single year. It demonstrates, more clearly than any argument could, the fact that under the operations of this system, which has been in full force within the past year, the people have sustained great losses, and that the money centers have shown great increases in valuations at the expense of the people's prosperity. "FORTY-THREE STATE OFFICIALS TESTIFY. The official figures from forty-three States and Territories are presented. In one or two of the States of the Union the fixing of property valuation is arbitrary on the part of the State, and is made only once in five years. This is the case in Michigan, for instance. In Rhode Island and Connecticut there are no returns of property for...
Author | : Gabriel A. Almond |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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This study of plutocracy and politics in New York City in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries poses the following central questions: What have been the consequences of the relatively rapid democratization in America for activities and attitudes of the wealthy classes and what transformations have occurred in the political and social attitudes of the wealthier classes as a result of the increasing lower-class pressures? Gabriel Almond conducted the research for his University of Chicago dissertation in 1935–1936 in New York City. The Great Depression supplied the background events and themes.