Category - Non Fiction / Business & Economics
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 8 months ago
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - May 2011
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Jeff Madrick Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 12, 2012 - Business & Economics - 480 pages A vivid history of the economics of greed told through the stories of those major figures primarily responsible. Age of Greed shows how the single-minded and selfish pursuit of immense personal wealth has been on the rise in the United States over the last forty years. Economic journalist Jeff Madrick tells this story through incisive profiles of the individuals responsible for this dramatic shift in our country’s fortunes, from the architects of the free-market economic philosophy (such as Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan) to the politicians and businessmen (including Nixon, Reagan, Boesky, and Soros) who put it into practice. Their stories detail how a movement initially conceived as a moral battle for freedom instead brought about some of our nation's most pressing economic problems, including the intense economic inequity and instability America suffers from today. This is an indispensible guide to understanding the 1 percent.
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Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
ISBN: 9781400041718
Publisher Description
A vividly told history of how greed bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. As Jeff Madrick makes clear in a narrative at once sweeping, fast...
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