Rigged Game: Corporate America and a People Betrayed - Softcover

Hively, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551642808 ISBN 13: 9781551642802

Publisher: Black Rose Books, 2006

Synopsis

Using statistics from the Department of Commerce and other sources, and beginning with the Great Depression, John Hively traces how recessions begin, how corporations and financial markets are interconnected, and describes the consequences of current distribution of wealth and income practices. By clarifying how the economy actually functions (which is radically different than what we have been led to believe), and through the subject of financial markets, globalization, CEO billionaires, and big corporations, with the scandals and the in-trading, he is able to show that if these trends continue to unfold, the growing income gap will prove to be a destabilizing factor in society.

John Hively studied economics at the University of Tennessee and has been a freelance writer for "Business Journal."

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Synopsis:

Hively demonstrates unequivocally that "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer". John Hively sees any economic downturn as nothing more than an adjustment to the distribution of wealth and income, and not in favour of working people. Using statistics from the Commerce Department and other sources, and beginning with the Great Depression, Hively traces how recessions begin, how corporations and financial markets are interconnected, and describes the consequences of current distribution of wealth and income practices. His economic analysis and historical comparisons blend to show that the current practice of distribution of wealth and income has left a huge concentration of wealth at the top. During the last 30 years, income and wealth in North America have increasingly shifted from those who work for a living to an economically and politically connected, but small, group of affluent people: in almost all categories the upper 10 per cent of American families soared, while the remaining 90 per cent either stagnated, or at the lower end, actually declined.

By clarifying how the economy actually functions (which is radically different than what readers have been led to believe), and through the subject of financial markets, globalisation, big corporations and CEO millionaires, Hively is able to show that as these trends continue to unfold, the wealthiest are accumulating ever-increasing riches, and warns that this growing income gap will prove to be a destabilising factor.

About the Author:

John Hively studied economics at the University of Tennessee and has been a freelance writer for Business Journal. This is his first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1551642808
• ISBN 13: 9781551642802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224