Plutocrats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plutocrats write by Chrystia Freeland. This book was released on 2012-10-11. Plutocrats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Plutocracy in America
Plutocracy in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plutocracy in America write by Ronald P. Formisano. This book was released on 2015-09-15. Plutocracy in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Plutocracy
Plutocracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plutocracy write by Abraham Martinez. This book was released on 2020-12-15. Plutocracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2051. The world's largest company, The Company, has seized power on a planetary scale and runs the world as if it were a business. In a plutocracy, the richer one is, the more powerful one is. In this context, an anonymous citizen becomes compelled to uncover how the world came to this situation, without paying any attention to the official version. Several members of the government end up encouraging him to carry out this investigation by giving him access to all information. He decides to discover the true history of The Company and the various interests that are trying to influence his investigation.
Plutocrats United
Plutocrats United - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plutocrats United write by Richard L. Hasen. This book was released on 2016-01-12. Plutocrats United available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Rich Don't Always Win
The Rich Don't Always Win - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rich Don't Always Win write by Sam Pizzigati. This book was released on 2012-11-27. The Rich Don't Always Win available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
