Escaping Gilded Cages: Breaking the Cycle of Concentrated Wealth & Rebuilding the Common Good
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- Escaping Gilded Cages: Breaking the Cycle of Concentrated Wealth & Rebuilding the Common Good
- Author
- Devine, James J
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798174671270
Drawing on the empirical tradition of labor and economic policy research, Devine documents how fifty years of deliberate choices—tax cuts, financial deregulation, union-busting, and trade deals—transferred roughly $60 trillion from the many to the few. He traces the four interlocking mechanisms of political capture: campaign finance, the revolving door, judicial capture, and the filibuster, reinforced by a disinformation infrastructure pioneered by tobacco and perfected by fossil fuels.
But this is not a book of lament. It is a blueprint. Across twenty chapters, Devine lays out a detailed, evidence-based agenda: 100% clean electricity by 2035, Medicare-for-all-style universal coverage, a $25 minimum wage indexed to productivity, a wealth tax, restoration of Glass-Steagall, the PRO Act, the Equal Rights Amendment, reparations, voting rights restoration, Supreme Court reform, AI governance, and payment of America's $800 billion carbon debt. Every proposal is grounded in historical precedent, peer-reviewed evidence, or policies already working in comparable democracies.
The book's most important argument comes last: better arguments alone have never overcome concentrated power. The gap between these policies and current law is a gap of power, not persuasion. Devine closes with a rigorous account of what actually builds power—face-to-face relational organizing, rebuilt unions, cooperatives, and permanent electoral infrastructure—anchored in the examples of Ella Baker, Frederick Douglass, and Mother Jones.
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