99 to 1
The focus of the worldwide "Occupy" protests is creating a world that works for 99% of people and businesses, not just the richest and most powerful 1%. But who are the 99%? Who are the 1%? How extensive and systemic is inequality in different areas of society? What are its causes and consequence? How is inequality changing in our world? And what can be done about it?
For many years Chuck Collins has been a top leader in studying, speaking about, and writing about these questions. In this book he brings together in one place, for the first time, information that has been widely scattered in many different articles, reports, and websites. He provides revealing and powerful information about inequality in all realms of today's world, including individual wealth and power, corporate wealth and power, media control, political influence, and other areas. He then describes the functioning of the "Wall Street Inequality Machine" and describes how inequality wrecks everything we care about. And he tells how people and groups are pushing back against inequality and taking action to reduce inequality and create a world that works for the many and not just the few.
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. For the first time, this book reveals the concrete meaning of the 99% and the 1%, looking not just at individual households but at the business world, the media, and the earth as a whole.
Collins identifies the shifts in social values, political power, and economic policy that have led to our current era of extreme inequality particularly the way Wall Street has managed to rig the rules of the game in favor of the 1perecent and surveys the havoc inequality has wreaked on virtually every aspect of society. But there is hope. Not only does he offer common-sense proposals for closing the inequality gap, but Collins provides a guide to many of the groups including some made up of millionaires that are working to bring about a society that works for everybody: for the 100 percent. This is a struggle that can be won. After all, the odds are 99 to 1 in our favor.
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: WE ARE THE 99 PERCENT
CHAPTER 1: COMING APART AT THE MIDDLE
CHAPTER 2: WHO IS THE ONE PERCENT?
CHAPTER 3: HOW THE 1 PERCENT RIGS THE RULES OF THE ECONOMY
CHAPTER 4: LIFE IN THE 99 PERCENT
CHAPTER 5: THE WALL STREET INEQUALITY MACHINE
CHAPTER 6: HOW INEQUALITY WRECKS EVERYTHING WE CARE ABOUT
CHAPTER 7: HOW WEALTH INEQUALITY CRASHED THE ECONOMY
CHAPTER 8: THE SLEEPING 99 PERCENT GIANT WAKES UP
CHAPTER 9: REVERSING THE INEQUALITY DEATH SPIRAL
CHAPTER 10: SIX BOLD RULE CHANGES TO BREAK UP CONCENTRATED WEALTH
CONCLUSION: PROSPECTS FOR GREATER EQUALITY
NOTES
RESOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Autor: Chuck Collins
- 168 Seiten, 11 Abbildungen, Maße: 14,1 x 21,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
- ISBN-10: 1609945921
- ISBN-13: 9781609945923
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