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    Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
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    Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
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    Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

    Written by Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Narrated by Fred Sanders

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 2, 2015
    ISBN9780451486523
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    Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
    Author

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is university professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute. He is the author of The Stiglitz Report: Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Systems in the Wake of the Global Crisis, a co-author of Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add Up and Measuring What Counts: A New Dashboard for Well-being, and a co-editor of For Good Measure: An Agenda for Moving Beyond GDP (all published by The New Press). He lives in New York City.

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