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The price of inequality : [how today's divided society endangers our future] / Joseph E. Stiglitz

By:

Stiglitz, Joseph E

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co. , c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxi, 414 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780393088694

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.5 STI

LOC classification:

HC110.I5 S867 2012

Contents:

Ch.1 America's 1 (one) Percent Problem -- Ch.2 Rent seeking and the making of an unequal society -- Ch.3 Markets and inequality -- Ch.4 Why it matters -- Ch.5 A democracy in peril -- Ch.6 1984 is upon us -- Ch.7 Justice for all? How inequality is eroding the Rule of Law -- Ch.8 The battle of the budget -- Ch.9 A macroeconomic policy and a Central Bank by and for the 1 (one) percent -- Ch.10 The way forward: another world is possible.

Summary: Examines how the wealthy classes have contributed to growing inequality in society and explains how the quest to increase wealth has hindered the country's economic growth as well as its efforts to solve its most pressing economic problems.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	305.5 STI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		066921

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-397) and index.

Examines how the wealthy classes have contributed to growing inequality in society and explains how the quest to increase wealth has hindered the country's economic growth as well as its efforts to solve its most pressing economic problems.

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