The Trouble with Billionaires: How the Super-Rich Hijacked the World and How We Can Take It Back
Files
Available in the Osgoode Hall Law School Library
Description
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem like a harmless source of entertainment. But such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and the very functioning of democracy. It's no accident that the United States claims the most billionaires—but suffers among the highest rates of infant mortality and crime, the shortest life expectancy, as well as the lowest rates of social mobility and electoral political participation in the developed world.
Our society tends to regard large fortunes as evidence of great talent or accomplishment. Yet the vast new wealth isn't due to an increase in talent or effort at the top, but rather to changing social attitudes legitimizing greed and government policy changes that favour the new elite. Authoritative and eye-opening, The Trouble with Billionaires will spark debate about the kind of society we want.
ISBN
9780670064199
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
Viking Canada
City
Toronto, Ontario
Keywords
Income distribution; Rich people; Rich people--Taxation; Economic conditions; Canada; United States
Repository Citation
McQuaig, Linda and Brooks, Neil, "The Trouble with Billionaires: How the Super-Rich Hijacked the World and How We Can Take It Back" (2010). Books. 240.
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty_books/240
Comments
American edition published by Beacon Press under title: Billionaires' Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality.
Bibliographic Citation
Brooks, Neil, and Linda McQuaig. The Trouble with Billionaires: How the Super-Rich Hijacked the World and How We Can Take It Back. Toronto, ON: Penguin Books, 2010. Print.