The Price of Inequality - Couverture rigide

Stiglitz, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846146933 ISBN 13 : 9781846146930

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2012

Synopsis

The Price of Inequality Providing evidence that investment - not austerity - is for productivity, and offering realistic solutions for levelling the playing field and increasing social mobility, the author argues that reform of our economic and political systems is just fairer, and the only way to make markets work as they really should. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn - too late.In this timely book, Joseph Stiglitz identifies three major causes of our predicament: that markets don't work the way they are supposed to (being neither efficient nor stable); how political systems fail to correct the shortcomings of the market; and how our current economic and political systems are fundamentally unfair. He focuses chiefly on the gross inequality to which these systems give rise, but also explains how inextricably interlinked they are. Providing evidence that investment - not austerity - is vital for productivity, and offering realistic solutions for levelling the playing field and increasing social mobility, Stiglitz argues that reform of our economic and political systems is not just fairer, but is the only way to make markets work as they really should.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Joseph Stiglitz was Chief Economist at the World Bank until January 2000. He is currently University Professor of the Columbia Business School and Chair of the Management Board and Director of Graduate Summer Programs, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the best-selling author of Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring Nineties, Making Globalization Work and Freefall, all published by Penguin.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846146933
• ISBN 13: 9781846146930
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448