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ALSO BY JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
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THE PRICE OFINEQUALITY
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
W. W. NORTON & COMPANYNEW YORK   LONDON
To Siobhan and Michael and Edward and Julia,
In the hopes that they will inherit a world and a country that are less divided
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Chapter One
AMERICA’S 1 PERCENT PROBLEM
Chapter Two
RENT SEEKING AND THE MAKING OF AN UNEQUAL SOCIETY
Chapter Three
MARKETS AND INEQUALITY
Chapter Four
WHY IT MATTERS
Chapter Five
A DEMOCRACY IN PERIL
Chapter Six
1984 IS UPON US
Chapter Seven
JUSTICE FOR ALL? HOW INEQUALITY IS ERODING THE RULE OF LAW
Chapter Eight
THE BATTLE OF THE BUDGET
Chapter Nine
A MACROECONOMIC POLICY AND A CENTRAL BANK BY AND FOR THE 1 PERCENT
Chapter Ten
THE WAY FORWARD: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
NOTES
INDEX
PREFACE
THERE ARE MOMENTS IN HISTORY WHEN PEOPLE ALL over the world seem to rise up, to say that something is wrong, to ask for change. This is what happened in the tumultuous years 1848 and 1968. Each of these years of upheaval marked the beginning of a new era. The year 2011 may prove to be another such moment.
A youth uprising that began in Tunisia, a little country on the coast of North Africa, spread to nearby Egypt, then to other countries of the Middle East. In some cases, the spark of protest seemed at least temporarily doused. In others, though, small protests precipitated cataclysmic societal change, taking down long-established dictators such as Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi. Soon the people of Spain and Greece, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and other countries around the world, had their own reasons to be in the streets.
Throughout 2011, I gladly accepted invitations to Egypt, Spain, and Tunisia and met with protesters in Madrid’s Buen Retiro Park, at Zuccotti Park in New York, and in Cairo, where I spoke with young men and women who had been at Tahrir Square.
As we talked, it was clear to me that while specific grievances varied from country to country and, in particular, that the political grievances in the Middle East were very different from those in the West, there were some shared themes. There was a common understanding that in many ways the economic and political system had failed and that both were fundamentally unfair.
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