The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393088693
• ISBN13: 9780393088694
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"