The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them by Stiglitz, Joseph E.
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them by Stiglitz, Joseph E.

The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them

In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book...
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Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
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The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them by Stiglitz, Joseph E.

The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them

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The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them by Stiglitz, Joseph E.

The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them

BD$43.45
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter America's growing problem. With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice--the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities.

Gathering his writings for popular outlets including Vanity Fair and the New York Times, Stiglitz exposes in full America's inequality: its dimensions, its causes, and its consequences for the nation and for the world. From Reagan-era to the Great Recession and its long aftermath, Stiglitz delves into the irresponsible policies--deregulation, tax cuts, and tax breaks for the 1 percent--that are leaving many Americans farther and farther beyond and turning the American dream into an ever more unachievable myth. With formidable yet accessible economic insight, he urges us to embrace real solutions: increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy; offering more help to the children of the poor; investing in education, science, and infrastructure; helping out homeowners instead of banks; and, most importantly, doing more to restore the economy to full employment. Stiglitz also draws lessons from Scandinavia, Singapore, and Japan, and he argues against the tide of unnecessary, destructive austerity that is sweeping across Europe.

Ultimately, Stiglitz believes our choice is not between growth and fairness; with the right policies, we can choose both. His complaint is not so much about capitalism as such, but how twenty-first-century capitalism has been perverted. His is a call to confront America's economic inequality as the political and moral issue that it is. If we reinvest in people and pursue the other policies that he describes, America can live up to the shared dream of a more prosperous, more equal society.



Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/20/2015
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.95w x 1.41d
ISBN: 9780393248579


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 04/27/2015
New York Review of Books 09/24/2015 pg. 32
Choice 01/01/2016

About the Author
Stiglitz, Joseph E.: - Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the best-selling author of Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti- Globalization in the Age of Trump, The Price of Inequality, and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute.
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