Rigged Game

by John Hively

Using statistics from the Department of Commerce and other sources, and beginning with the Great Depression, John Hively traces how recessions begin, how corporations and financial markets are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551642808
• ISBN13: 9781551642802
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Analysis of Modern Macroeconomics....for anyone

This book is very unique and highly recommended. John Hively predicts the economic meltdown of 2008 all the way back in the spring of 2006, when this book was originally published. John Hively has done a great job presenting a plausible analysis of modern american economic history in layman's terms. The only thing missing are charts and data tables - maybe a couple photos would be nice as well. Mr Hively's chief assertion in this book is that the incessant drive for increasing corporate dividends is what sends America into recessions / depressions. When dividends rise faster than profits, CEOs begin to cut spending and slash jobs - which actually causes recessions due to weakened demand. Lost wages are thus transformed into corporate profits, which are then spit out as dividends. His arguments are very compelling. Mr Hively's visions for a future free from corporations are a bit northwest-idealist unrealistic, but they take up so little of the book that I wasn't even annoyed. Nonetheless, he makes a very valid point that limited liability corporations are bad for the common man in many ways. This is the best book I've read for many years. More exciting than 'the Stranger', more useful than 'the Prince', more insightful than Freud and Nietzche combined (well...). This book is the 'Origin of Species' of modern macroeconomics. Buy it!!

The rich get richer...The poor get ...(you know the rest)

Mr. Hively extensively examines the cause and effect of our current economic climate with the rise of power and influence of corporations in our society and government. Many readers may be shocked by his recomendations and solutions to today's economic ills. A quick search reveals that The Rigged Game is Mr. Hively's first published work. I look forward to future efforts by this promising writer