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Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy an Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity Paperback – 4 December 2015

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Inequality is a choice.

The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story―the U.S. today lags behind most other developed nations in measures of inequality and economic mobility. For decades, wages have stagnated for the majority of workers while economic gains have disproportionately gone to the top one percent. Education, housing, and health care―essential ingredients for individual success―are growing ever more expensive. Deeply rooted structural discrimination continues to hold down women and people of color, and more than one-fifth of all American children now live in poverty. These trends are on track to become even worse in the future.

Some economists claim that today's bleak conditions are inevitable consequences of market outcomes, globalization, and technological progress. If we want greater equality, they argue, we have to sacrifice growth. This is simply not true. American inequality is the result of misguided structural rules that actually constrict economic growth. We have stripped away worker protections and family support systems, created a tax system that rewards short-term gains over long-term investment, offered a de facto public safety net to too-big-to-fail financial institutions, and chosen monetary and fiscal policies that promote wealth over full employment.

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An aggressive blueprint for rewriting 35 years of policies [that] have led to a vast concentration of wealth among the richest Americans and an increasingly squeezed middle class.-- "New York Times"

The secret truth about economic inequality in America: once you look at the issue this way, it's hard to think of it any other way.-- "Time"

At a time when 25 hedge fund managers make more than all our nation's kindergarten teachers combined, it is clear that the rules are rigged in favor of the wealthy few. Joseph Stiglitz has proposed a bold plan to rewrite these rules by rebuilding our economy for the twenty-first century.--Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers

Stiglitz realizes that deepening inequality in our country is not an unlucky act of nature, but a consequence of the policies we have chosen. This lively book suggests a whole menu of policy changes to move us toward a more widely shared prosperity.--Robert Solow, winner of the Nobel Prize

About the Author

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the best-selling author of People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent; Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Age of Trump; The Price of Inequality; and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ *Norton agency titles; 1st edition (4 December 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393353125
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393353129
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.03 x 20.83 cm

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Joseph E. Stiglitz is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the recipient of a John Bates Clark Medal and a Nobel Prize. He is also the former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. His books include Globalization and Its Discontents, The Three Trillion Dollar War, and Making Globalization Work. He lives in New York City.

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dominique baillard

Very concise and well documented analysis of the alarming situation ...

Reviewed in Canada on 5 August 2016

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Very concise and well documented analysis of the alarming situation of the American society after 25 years of neoliberalism. Followed with detailed proposals to reverse the trend and create an economy that will work for everyone and not mainly for the top 1%. Everybody should read this book to understand why equality and economic performance go hand in hand and not as opposing forces.

JL Populist

Solutions for Fixing the American Economy.

Reviewed in the United States on 30 November 2015

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Mr. Stiglitz argues in this book that inequality is a consequence of choices that were made. He explains why some of those choices in the past worked and some obviously didn't while providing some excellent ideas to change inequality and make the economy more prosperous.

One of the problems with the economy is the rewarding of "short-termism" over long term investment. Witness the gambling with derivatives.
Trade agreements are another issue where the agreements are more "managed trade" than "free trade."
He provides a solution for high pharmaceutical costs and calls for transparency in financial markets.
The tax system encourages speculation over actual work or labor.

A helpful feature is the definition of economic terms throughout the book.

The best part of the book is that the author not only explains what is wrong with the American economy, he explains how it can be corrected.

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M. Katic

Capitalism represents one transitional form of the market economyo that will inevitably be replaced by a more progressive form.

Reviewed in Canada on 16 September 2016

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This item didn't meet my expectations. To restore the balance between government, business, and labor, and to create an economy that work for everyone, more radical measures must be implemented i.e. the economy of profit must be replaced by an economy of value added. Detailed explanation can be found in the book "The Future of Market Economy", Kindle Edition. The Future of Market Economy: From Capitalism to Non-capitalism and Wealth of Nations

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KG

Very interesting/relevant economic discussion

Reviewed in the United States on 30 November 2015

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Interesting discussion of current inequalities in the American economy and multiple proposals to eliminate them. Mr. Stiglitz compares the current state of the economy with various times in the nation's past, and demonstrates how many ideas that were supposed to create wealth and boost all of society have resulted in increasing income/wealth only for the top of the economic ladder. His ideas to decrease the overall levels of economic inequality within the US seem logical, and are coherently expounded upon within the book. However, it is very doubtful that his ideas will be adopted/applied in the near future based upon the current polarized state of the US political system. Still, the book was an interesting read given the issues facing the modern day economy.

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Edoardo Angeloni

The importance the role the welfare against the excesses of finance.

Reviewed in the United States on 23 March 2018

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An important text where the author, a Nobel Prize in economics, explicates the new trends. The first concept, which should be considered, is the similarity between Usa and Europe: those two models are always less different, but we can observe how certain aspects are the same. Surely the big multi-national agencies are a characteristic of Usa, but the rights of workers become similar. The welfare is a politics which with Obama has got his decisions and he tryied to preserve the wages of workers. The excesses of free market in this book are seen with attention, without the use of game theory. Stiglitz is an expert of this mathematics, but here the importance is about a correction of the financial rules for a social welfare.

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