Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives - Couverture rigide

Pizzigati, Sam

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1891843257 ISBN 13 : 9781891843259

Editeur : Apex Press, 2004

Synopsis

Over recent years, academics and activists the world over have generated a broad and often brilliant body of work that exposes just how concentrated wealth is poisoning everything we hold dear, from our health to our happiness, from our arts to our Earth. Sam Pizzigati builds upon this critically important body of work. His riveting pages make undeniably plain the horrific price we pay for accepting, as an inevitable given, wealth's dominion. In our workplaces and the communities where we live, we feel the impact on inequality each and every day. Our nation's ever-widening gaps between the wealthy and everyone else, he shows, are squeezing pride out of our professions, pleasure out of our pastimes, even years out of our lives. This widening inequality, in return, offers us nothing significant of value. Greed and Good explores the most promising options for creating a less unequal world, then offers a practical political guide for moving forward on the boldest option of all, a maximum wage, a national ceiling on annual individual income that would rise if and only if the minimum legal wage rose first. If all men and women are indeed created equal, as Pizzigati makes clear, any society that winks at the monstrously large fortunes that make some people decidedly more equal than others is asking for trouble.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sam Pizzigati is an American labor journalist whose articles and op-eds about inequality have appeared in the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Los Angeles Times, and a host of other periodicals. The author of two previous books, he recently stepped down after twenty years directing the publishing operations of Americais largest union, the 2.7 million-member National Education Association. Pizzigati currently serves on the boards of directors of Progressive Maryland, the stateis top labor and public interest group alliance, and United for a Fair Economy, the national organization that has led the drive to preserve the estate tax.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Apex Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1891843257
• ISBN 13: 9781891843259
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 684
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible