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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben • 3 highlights
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Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
You can enjoy the fun of beating the system that exists to take your money and live a middle-class lifestyle on a quarter of the usual numbers.
Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
Recent statistics show that, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates notwithstanding, Americans making $50,000 to $100,000 give away two to six times as much of their money (in percentage terms) as people who make more than $10 million.59
Bill McKibben • Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
More and more wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, whose lifestyles are glorified by the media, which means that the expectations of the majority have become increasingly beyond their means.
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
The growing gap between wages and productivity is just another hidden tax that transfers wealth from workers to employers.
Michael Pettis • The Great Rebalancing
Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit devoted to making American lifestyles socially and ecologically sustainable.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
An arresting plea for ‘small is beautiful’ in an economy increasingly oriented around breakneck growth, financialization, increasing monopolies, and industry consolidation.