Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Collins, Chuck

Titel

99 to 1: 6 How Inequality Wrecks Everything We Care About

Ist Teil von

• International review of social history, 2012-03

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For over thirty years, we've lived through a radical redistribution of wealth--upward, to a tiny fraction of the population. It's as though we're undertaking a bizarre social experiment to see how much inequality a democratic society can tolerate. As a result "We are the 99%," the rallying cry of the Occupy movement, has spread far beyond its ranks. But who are the 99 percent? Who are the 1 percent? How extensive and systematic is inequality throughout society? What are its true causes and consequences? How is inequality changing in our world? And what can be done about it? For many years Chuck Collins has been a leading voice and activist on these questions. In this book he marshals wide-ranging data from a variety of sources to paint a graphic picture of how disparities in wealth and power play out in America and the world.