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Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? --Publisher.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Shareholder and stakeholder capitalism -- The government: billions of people are governed more by companies than by countries -- The workers -- Taxes and the wormhole in the global economy -- Foreign policy: does every company need its own state department, pentagon, and CIA? -- The geography of change: the contest for power between closed and open systems.
"For 150 years, there has been a contract. Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives....
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2006
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English
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The middle class has never been so vulnerable. Its every feature is under assault by politicians and the lobbyists who court them, big-business corporations that are sending their jobs overseas, and a media that relies on sensationalism instead of facts when reporting the news. CNN host and commentator Dobbs looks at every aspect of the decline of the middle class--from a lack of political representation to America's corrupt health-care system--to...
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