
People, Power, and Profits
Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.00 for first 30 days
Buy for $17.19
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Sean Runnette
A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy.
We all have the sense that the American economy - and its government - tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation is dire. A few corporations have come to dominate entire sectors of the economy, contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth. This is how the financial industry has managed to write its own regulations, tech companies have accumulated reams of personal data with little oversight, and our government has negotiated trade deals that fail to represent the best interests of workers. Too many have made their wealth through exploitation of others rather than through wealth creation. If something isn't done, new technologies may make matters worse, increasing inequality and unemployment.
Stiglitz identifies the true sources of wealth and of increases in standards of living, based on learning, advances in science and technology, and the rule of law. He shows that the assault on the judiciary, universities, and the media undermines the very institutions that have long been the foundation of America's economic might and its democracy.
©2019 Joseph E. Stiglitz (P)2019 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















People who viewed this also viewed...


















simple enough a politician could understand it
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great material, a must read!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Superbly describes the decline of US society
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Excellent Summary
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Joseph Stiglitz' vision for a reclaimed America
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Our politicians, should work for the entire polis, because by maintaining only one small neighborhood, the entire city would collapse.
Survival kit
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Good vision and explained clearly
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Powerful explanations with simple words. Resonating with previous works of the author
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A road map from where we are to where we should go
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Lots of great points but nothing too radical. Reads like a Powerpoint presentation of a doctoral thesis. :-) A bit of a slog to get through, honestly.
Great summary of progressive theory, but a bit dry
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.