Synopsis
Warren Buffett is worth nearly £50 billion. Does he deserve' all this money? Unjust Deserts offers an entirely new approach to the wealth question. In a lively synthesis of modern economic, technological and cultural research, Alperovitz and Daly demonstrate that up to 90% of the current economic output derives not from individual ingenuity but from our collective inheritance of scientific and technological knowledge.'
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...convincingly demonstrates that knowledge is the primary source of our national wealth - Bill Moyers
The moral conclusion is unmistakable: society itself is the source of wealth, and all of us deserve an equal share. - Howard Zinn
Unjust Deserts is an elegant work of moral philosophy... - James K. Galbraith, Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin
...deeply informed and carefully argued study of the social and historical factors that enter into creative achievement... - Noam Chomsky
Agree or disagree, you will see the world differently after you have read this book. - William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
The viewpoint presented in this important and provocative book should alter the current public discourse on income distribution. - Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, 1972
This is one of the most original and most intelligent works on economic justice I have read in many years. - Michael Kazin, author of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan and Professor of History, Georgetown University
...authors strike upon a vital topic when they highlight the need for the benefits from productivity gains to be shared... -- Mark Engler
Deliciously subversive. The authors lace their narrative with fascinating asides... and statistics that give their story plenty of dramatic oomph.
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Draws on extensive research to reveal how as much as ninety percent of current economic output is collective in nature, in a report that argues that the wealthy are not inherently deserving of their economic advantages and that more balanced wealth redistribution practices should be adopted. 15,000 first printing.
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