The Case for a Maximum Wage

ISBN-13: 9781509524914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 140 str.

Sam Pizzigati

Opis

Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Many of our largest corporations pay their executives more in a morning than their workers can earn in a year.

Recenzje

Sam Pizzigati brilliantly explains how high taxation of the very rich dissuaded them from exploiting the rest of us so much in the past, how we lost that protection, and what we need to do to win it back today. A work of genius.
Danny Dorling, University of Oxford

Pizzigati raises an urgent question: How long can we endure the burden of the super rich, who suppress the wages of the majority, drive up the costs of everything, and concentrate political power in their own hands? Fortunately he has an answer, and it cries out for enactment.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed

Spis treści

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction/ Moderation in All Things, Even Income
• 1/ Defining Excess
• 2/ The Magic of Maximum Multiples
• 3/ A Society without a Super Rich
• 4/ Pipe Dream or Politically Practical Project?
• 5/ Evolving toward Equity
• Notes

O autorze

Sam Pizzigati, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., co–edits Inequality.org.