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A prominent conservative scholar traces the post-1960s divisions between the Right and the Left, taking aim at liberals' victimization of African Americans and their failure to offer a viable way forward for American society. The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress.

The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Winner of the Orwell Prize. Named the most 'Rebellious Read of the 21st Century' in a Scottish Book Trust poll. Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty. Darren...

In this uplifting and practical book, written in collaboration with his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, the preeminent spiritual leader explains why we must—and how we can—make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people now. In the COVID crisis, the beloved shepherd of over one...

The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between rich and poor. Temin employs a well-known, simple model of a dual economy to examine the dynamics of the rich/poor divide in America.

An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.

In this provocative book, Jonathan Rothwell draws on the latest empirical evidence from across the social sciences to demonstrate how rich democracies have allowed racial politics and the interests of those at the top to subordinate justice. He looks at the rise of nationalism in Europe and the United States, revealing how this trend overlaps with racial prejudice and is related to mounting frustration with a political status quo that thrives on income inequality and inefficient markets. But economic differences are by no means inevitable.

In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition of ostentatious wealth and status.

A New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are...

Um mergulho preciso e mordaz no mundo dos endinheirados brasileiros. Há um traço comum a boa parte dos endinheirados brasileiros: eles não se consideram ricos. Não existe um critério absoluto para a riqueza no Brasil. Sempre haverá alguém com mais dinheiro, mais pompa, mais patrimônio, mais próximo do topo da pirâmide. Logo, os ricos são sempre os outros.

From the bestselling author of Palo Alto, a kaleidoscopic and thought-provoking history of how America came to pursue convenience—the feeling of getting what you want, when you want it—at all costs, to the detriment of our health, happiness, and even our efficiency. We are drowning in...

A groundbreaking investigation into the American decline in lifespan that impacts us all, by the award-winning founder of the University of Pennsylvania’s Opportunity for Health Lab—and a compassionate roadmap to better health, more connection, and stronger communities. The American Dream...

真正的历史转折点往往不在总统府的谈判桌上，而隐藏在无数农民、工人和移民对抗系统性不平等的社会阶层博弈里。当你厌倦了宏大叙事与王侯将相的赞歌，渴望在纷繁复杂的现代社会中找到个体命运的坐标时，这部自下而...

在资本狂飙突进的历史十字路口，前所未有的国家暴富与深不见底的阶层撕裂竟然遵循着同一套残酷的经济逻辑。当你深陷当下的财富焦虑，试图理解为何经济不断扩张却依然难以跨越阶层壁垒时，这部节奏明快的社会经济史...

A expansão econômica e a desigualdade social extrema cresceram juntas como motores da mesma máquina histórica americana. Ideal para acompanhar seu deslocamento diário, esta narrativa imersiva revela o verdadeiro custo do progresso acelerado após a Guerra Civil. É uma jornada reflexiva por...

L'inarrestabile ascesa del capitalismo americano ha forgiato una superpotenza, innescando una disuguaglianza storica. Ideale per chi cerca una narrazione analitica durante il tragitto quotidiano, questo saggio illumina le dinamiche nascoste del boom industriale. Un ascolto profondo che trasforma...

يروي هذا التاريخ الاقتصادي قصة صعود أمريكا الصناعية، حيث رافق تراكم الثروات الهائل فقر مدقع وصراعات طبقية مريرة. وسط هدير السكك الحديدية ودخان المصانع، تبرز...

La implacable expansión del capitalismo forjó una potencia mundial, pero desató una brutal desigualdad social. Tras la guerra civil, el auge ferroviario e industrial transformó la economía, concentrando la riqueza en unos pocos titanes. Es una escucha reflexiva y profunda, ideal para...

El abandono de la vida nómada no fue un simple avance técnico, sino la revolución histórica que originó la desigualdad. Para quienes buscan desentrañar las raíces de nuestra sociedad moderna durante su viaje diario, este audiolibro ofrece una inmersión antropológica fascinante. Pasamos...

Desentraña la desigualdad económica actual y comprende por qué la riqueza se concentra velozmente en muy pocas manos. Ya sea que busques claridad mientras escuchas en tu trayecto diario o necesites respuestas frente a un panorama financiero abrumador, este análisis reflexivo te ofrece un...

Desentraña la compleja anatomía del poder económico global y comprende cómo la extrema riqueza moldea nuestro mundo. Ideal para tus trayectos matutinos, este agudo análisis periodístico te invita a explorar el opaco universo de la élite financiera sin caer en mitos superficiales...