The Price of Inequality
How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Ranked #21 in International Business, Ranked #36 in Development Economics — see more rankings.
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. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz 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... more
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Bill Gates CEO/MicrosoftI have mixed feelings about The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz. Stiglitz’s contributions are important in that he really does a good job of articulating the issues of inequality and the economic factors that underlie it. He raises important questions about whether it’s getting harder for people in the U.S. to move up the economic ladder. He makes a pretty rational case for keeping things like the estate tax and for increasing taxes as part of how you close the budget deficit. On these ideas, I found a lot of common ground with... (Source)
Francisco Bethencourt I’m working now on a history of inequality, because while I was working on racism I was bumping into this issue all the time. It is indeed a political problem. (Source)
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- #61 in Capitalism
- #37 in Economics
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