Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer Dean Baker Author

by Dean Baker

2021-04-03 16:17:52

There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market.... Read more
There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather, it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward. Less

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File size5.90(w)x8.90(h)x0.60(d)
Print pages258
PublisherCenter for Economic and Policy Research
Publication date October 6, 2016
ISBN9780692793367
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Dean Baker, Codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., is author of False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy and The Conservative Nanny State. He also writ...

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