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Also by Joseph E. Stiglitz:

The Great Divide, May 2015
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The Price Of Inequality, June 2012
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Freefall, January 2010
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The Three Trillion Dollar War, March 2008
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Making Globalization Work, September 2006
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The Price Of Inequality
Joseph E. Stiglitz

How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

W.W. Norton & Co.
June 2012
On Sale: June 11, 2012
448 pages
ISBN: 0393088693
EAN: 9780393088694
Kindle: B007MKCQ30
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist. The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.”

Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable: moneyed interests compound their wealth by stifling true, dynamic capitalism. They have made America the most unequal advanced industrial country while crippling growth, trampling on the rule of law, and undermining democracy. The result: a divided society that cannot tackle its most pressing problems. With characteristic insight, Stiglitz examines our current state, then teases out its implications for democracy, for monetary and budgetary policy, and for globalization. He closes with a plan for a more just and prosperous future.

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