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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting. From Thomas More to Thomas Paine, Milton Friedman to Mark Zuckerberg, centuries of public figures have hailed the power of government payments as a tool for advancing social justice. For some advocates, basic income is a moral imperative, a policy with potential to upend structural inequalities; for others, it's a market-friendly version of the welfare state that doesn't constrain...
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English
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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist and a policy analyst expose the greed and pillaging of a small group of celebrated Wall Street financiers who use excessive debt and dubious practices to undermine our nation's economy while enriching themselves: private equity"--
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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" Saving for the future can seem anywhere from daunting to downright impossible—especially for Millennials and Gen Zers, who’ve had to contend with economic setbacks, recessions, and layoffs since graduating college. But everyone—yes, even YOU—can find a way to save for your future, and Your Best Financial Life can show you exactly how. Here, you’ll find actionable steps to demystify the retirement tools at your disposal, an easy-to-use...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The new economics of love and marriage-and who benefits. The realities of single parenting in the US have long carried a connotation of hardship-not just in finances, but in the wrenching day-to-day challenges of parenting without a net. As marriage rates in the US continue to drop, and as single-parent households become increasingly concentrated at the lower end of the income spectrum, it begs the question: what does all this mean for a country...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations....
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Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In her debut essay collection...critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture that is flattened and sanitized, purged...
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here? Whose freedom...
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Harriman House Pub
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Getting to financial independence can seem like an impossible journey. What path should you take? How do you get started? What about bumps in the road? The good news is there are proven routes to freedom and wealth-and they're nearer and simpler than you think. To help you make your own way to true and lasting financial independence, acclaimed personal finance writer Jonathan Clements has brought together the inspiring financial life stories of 30...
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Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The secrets to gaining wealth are usually gatekept by those at the top, who make navigating our financial systems seem hard and inaccessible. Yet, with the right mindset, financial freedom is closer than you think. Enter the F.I.R.E. (Financial Independence Retire Early) movement. It’s not about wishful thinking; it’s about actionable strategies. Frank Niu didn’t just dream about early retirement―he achieved it by age 30. Now, he’s here...
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Astra House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"How much money is too much? Is it ethical, and democratic, for an individual to amass a limitless amount of wealth, and then spend it however they choose? Many of us feel that the answer to that is no—but what can we do about it? Ingrid Robeyns has long written and argued for the principle she calls "limitarianism"—or the need to limit extreme wealth. This idea is gaining momentum in the mainstream – with calls to "tax the rich" and slogans...
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Today's inequality discourse has a fascinating and illuminating 300-year history. Branko Milanovic describes the evolution of the idea of inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see the rise and consolidation of the theory of social class, followed by its twentieth-century eclipse"--
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political elites have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us-and how we can take back our economy for all. It's easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality-and...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"From the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist's craft. When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America's strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses...
15) Wealth supremacy: how the extractive economy and the biased rules of capitalism drive today's crises
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The author of The Divine Right of Capital exposes the myths of capitalism today and calls for an end to wealth supremacy and capital bias. Wealth Supremacy makes a case that no one else is making: instead of pointing to billionaires as the sole problem or being another analysis of wealth inequality, it clearly articulates the pervasive, unnamed bias toward wealth that invisibly pervades the system. We know the system is rigged-what isn't commonly...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Once a romanticized beacon of democracy, culture, and the arts, France has slowly slid further and further away from its historic image of liberty, equality and fraternity. The country is on the brink. With a precarious labor force facing dwindling wages, a right wing political surge that has resulted in drastic acts of Islamaphobia and Anti-Seminitism, and a media increasingly led by government cronies, France has entered an unprecedented era of...
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