Over recent years, academics and activists the world over have generated a broad and often brilliant body of work that exposes just how concentrated wealth is poisoning everything we hold dear, from our health to our happiness, from our arts to our Earth. Sam Pizzigati builds upon this critically important body of work. His riveting pages make undeniably plain the horrific price we pay for accepting, as an inevitable given, wealth's dominion. In our workplaces and the communities where we live, we feel the impact on inequality each and every day. Our nation's ever-widening gaps between the wealthy and everyone else, he shows, are squeezing pride out of our professions, pleasure out of our pastimes, even years out of our lives. This widening inequality, in return, offers us nothing significant of value. Greed and Good explores the most promising options for creating a less unequal world, then offers a practical political guide for moving forward on the boldest option of all, a maximum wage, a national ceiling on annual individual income that would rise if and only if the minimum legal wage rose first.
If all men and women are indeed created equal, as Pizzigati makes clear, any society that winks at the monstrously large fortunes that make some people decidedly more equal than others is asking for trouble.
- ISBN10 1891843257
- ISBN13 9781891843259
- Publish Date 1 July 2004
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 21 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Council on International and Public Affairs
- Imprint Apex Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 684
- Language English