Why we can't afford the rich
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Why we can't afford the rich
Policy Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-425) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others, through the control of property and money. Leading social scientist Andrew Sayer shows how the rich worldwide have increased their ability to create indebtedness and expand their political influence.
Winner of the 2015 British Academy Peter Townsend Prize, this important book bursts the myth of the rich as specially talented wealth creators. It shows how the rich are threatening the planet by banking on unsustainable growth. The paperback includes a new Afterword updating developments in the last year and forcefully argues that the crises of economy and climate can only be resolved by radical
change to make economies sustainable, fair and conducive to well-being for all.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: A Guide to Wealth Extraction
- Slippery Terms and Vital Distinctions
- For rent . . . for what?
- Interest . . . for what? or We need to talk about usury
- Profit from production: or capitalists and rentiers: what's the difference?
- Other ways to skin a cat
- Don't the Rich Create Jobs? - and other objections
- Part II: Putting the Rich in Context: What Determines What People Get?
- To what do we owe our wealth?: Our dependence on the commons
- So what determines pay?
- The myth of the level playing field
- Part III: How the Rich Got Richer: Their Part in the Crisis
- The roots of the crisis
- Key winners
- Summing up: the crisis and the return of the rentiers
- Part IV: Rule by the Rich, for the Rich
- Silent power, pol donations lattice of influence
- Hiding it
- Illegal? + poachers
- What about philanthropy?
- Plutonomy
- Part V: Ill-gotten and Ill-spent: From Consumption to Ill-Being and CO2
- Spending it
- Global warming trumps everything
- Conclusion: back to basics - what kind of economy do we need?.
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