Download or read book Plutocracy in America written by Ronald P. Formisano and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This data-driven book offers insight into the fallacy of widespread opportunity, the fate of the middle class, and the mechanisms that perpetuate income disparity.

Download or read book The American Plutocracy written by Milford Wriarson Howard and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Plutocracy written by Milford Wriarson Howard and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX C. OBJECT LESSON! Here is the story of one year of the gold standard. It is a story told in figures--"-figures furnished by the sworn oflieers of the various States of this Union--a story the truth of which there can be no gainsaying., The advocates of the single gold standard continue to assert that the "average financial condition of the farmers is improving all the time." The statement was made in the vain hope of demonstrating to the people of America, and particularly to the people of the South, that. they are growing richer under the operations of the gold standard. There is a very simple and a very easy way to ascertain the exact facts concerning this point, and the facts are here presented. It is, indeed, a lesson of the gold standard. The table of figures presented here is one which anybody can understand. It shows the change in the property valuations of the different States of the Union from 1893 to 1894. And in showing this it presents what might be termed an official history of the operations of the single gold standard in a single year. It demonstrates, more clearly than any argument could, the fact that under the operations of this system, which has been in full force within the past year, the people have sustained great losses, and that the money centers have shown great increases in valuations at the expense of the people's prosperity. "FORTY-THREE STATE OFFICIALS TESTIFY. The official figures from forty-three States and Territories are presented. In one or two of the States of the Union the fixing of property valuation is arbitrary on the part of the State, and is made only once in five years. This is the case in Michigan, for instance. In Rhode Island and Connecticut there are no returns of property for...

Download or read book The American Plutocracy written by Milford Wriarson Howard and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book American Plutocracy written by James Martin and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Plutocracy is an eye-opening exposé of how money, greed, and power politics enable the wealthy and special interests to hold sway over our government. Anemic campaign finance legislation permits the economically privileged to make virtually unlimited cash contributions to politicians. As a result, tax laws favor the rich, Wall Street bankers remain unbridled, and corporations have become hugely profitable. At the same time, the middle class has diminished and, for many, the American Dream is no longer attainable. Affordable housing, higher education, quality healthcare, and well-paying jobs are now beyond the grasp of many of our citizens. While the wealthy "mega-thrive," much of America is simply trying to survive. Fiscally, the United States is approaching a tipping point. The national debt ($23+ trillion) exceeds the annual Gross National Product (GNP), while deficit spending now runs about a trillion dollars per year. Federal entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, etc.) consume 63% of the annual federal budget and teeter near insolvency. Corporate tax dodging has pulled billions of dollars out of government coffers while predatory labor practices further deplete the US workforce. Expecting government to overcome the calamity we now face is wildly optimistic and irrational. There is too much conflict of interest, with no inherent motivation for legislators to do things differently. Instead, American voters/workers/consumers need to take personal responsibility for their own wellbeing. Together, we can proactively affect changes in spite of our elected officials. American Plutocracy offers an inspiring vision for America that embraces a grassroots capitalism that fosters ownership and prosperity for United States labor, cultivates sustainable employment and careers, and carves a path toward economic, political, and social parity for all Americans. Twenty years ago, such an ambitious endeavor would have seemed unfeasible. Today, with the advent of the Internet and social media, it is collectively within all our reach.

Download or read book The Great Madness written by Scott Nearing and published by New York : Rand School of Social Science. This book was released on 1917 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plutocracy in America written by Ronald P. Formisano and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard-hitting analysis of how the disparity between wealth and poverty undermines the common good. The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined—more than almost any other developed nation—by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that an infrastructure of inequality, both open and hidden, obstructs the great majority in pursuing happiness, living healthy lives, and exercising basic rights. A government dominated by finance, corporate interests, and the wealthy has undermined democracy, stunted social mobility, and changed the character of the nation. In this tough-minded dissection of the gulf between the super-rich and the working and middle classes, Ronald P. Formisano explores how the dramatic rise of income inequality over the past four decades has transformed America from a land of democratic promise into one of diminished opportunity. Since the 1970s, government policies have contributed to the flow of wealth to the top income strata. The United States now is more a plutocracy than a democracy. Formisano surveys the widening circle of inequality’s effects, the exploitation of the poor and the middle class, and the new ways that predators take money out of Americans’ pockets while passive federal and state governments stand by. This data-driven book offers insight into the fallacy of widespread opportunity, the fate of the middle class, and the mechanisms that perpetuate income disparity.

Download or read book The Great Madness written by Scott Nearing and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Triumphant Plutocracy written by Richard Franklin Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pants on Fire written by Paul Christopherson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pants on Fire explores the lies that govern America—why people go along with them and what it costs to do so. It reveals the plutocracy that benefits and examines what needs to be done to bring back a true democracy. It’s no secret: The wealthy demand—and get—what they want from the system at the expense of everyone else. Seven key lies advance their agenda: The way to grow the economy is to stimulate the people at the top. Loose money is another way to grow the economy. The stock market is the best investment and the best economic indicator. Executive compensation is tied to performance. Regulation is bad; deregulation is good. Bailing out Wall Street was necessary to preserve the system. The health care question is about who pays. These claims are driving the biggest economic crisis in modern history, and producing a society ready to explode with anger. Provocative and sometimes funny, Pants on Fire looks past the individual problems to the eventual, necessary solution.

Download or read book The Rich Don t Always Win written by Sam Pizzigati and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way. Except they don't. A century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domineering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become museums and college campuses, and America had become a vibrant, mass middle class nation, the first and finest the world had ever seen. Americans today ought to be taking no small inspiration from this stunning change. After all, if our forbears successfully beat back grand fortune, why can't we? But this transformation is inspiring virtually no one. Why? Because the story behind it has remained almost totally unknown, until now. This lively popular history will speak directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. By tracing how average Americans took down plutocracy over the first half of the 20th Century--and how plutocracy came back-- The Rich Don't Always Win will outfit Occupy Wall Street America with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream.

Download or read book Social Inequality Economic Decline and Plutocracy written by Dale L. Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to further an understanding of present day America by exploring counter-hegemony to the rule of capital and offering guidelines for strategizing change proceeding from the dialectic of What Is and What Ought to Be. The author analyzes neoliberal global order and its political expressions through discussions of the dominance of finance capital in the late twentieth century, the triumph of ideology, the closing of avenues to reform, the problem of the captive state, and a sociological analysis of rule by “divide and conquer.” The book concludes with a look at the history of movement politics in culture, arts, economics, and politics. It resounds with a hope that challenges to hegemony can use many paths to change, of which the electoral path is but one of many fronts, in the long-term struggle for radical reform.

Download or read book Triumphant Plutocracy written by R. F. Pettigrew and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Triumphant Plutocracy: The Story of American Public Life From 1870 to 1920 The American people should know the truth about American public life. They have been lied to so much and hoodwinked so often that it would seem only fair for them to have at least one straight-from-the shoulder statement concerning this government of the people, by the people and for the people, about whose inner workings the people know almost nothing. The common people of the United States, like the same class of people in every other country, mean well, but they are ill-informed. Floundering about in their ignorance, they are tricked and robbed by those who have the inside information and who therefore know how to take advantage of every turn in the wheel of fortune. The people voted for Roosevelt be cause he talked of trust-busting at the same time that he was sanctioning the purchase of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the Steel Trust. They sup ported Wilson because he kept us out of war at the same time that Wilson was making preparations to enter the war. The rulers can negotiate secret treaties at home and abroad. The people, knowing nothing of either the theory or the practice of secret diplomacy, commit all sorts of follies for which they themselves must later foot the bill. At the present moment the American people are being taught Americanism - taught by the same gentry who are making away with billions of dollars, sometimes legally and sometimes without any sanc tion in the law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The New Plutocracy written by John Calvin Reed and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Price of Folly written by William Durland and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Price of Folly is a unique examination of the American form of Capitalism from the perspective of history, politics, law, and religion, as well as established economic theories. As the subtitle indicates, this book attempts to make economics and economic failures clear and understandable to the layperson. In a trip through time from Adam Smith to the 2012 election, it is a systematic critique of the plutocracy our American economic system has become, including a healthy dose of ethical theory and philosophical and religious ethics as the prism through which the reader can gain a fresh perspective on the inequities in our economic system. Bill Durland's unique background includes degrees in History, Political Science, Philosophy and Theology and years of experience as a civil rights lawyer, community organizer and teacher, giving him the tools and credentials necessary for this undertaking. He asks the fundamental question of why our economic system rejects the ethics of participatory democracy that our religious and political systems have accepted as their guide. He suggests we consider alternative economic systems such as cooperativism or a mixed economy. A must read for anyone wishing to understand the most recent Great Recession, its causes and how similar crises might be forestalled.

Download or read book Triumphant Plutocracy the Story of American Public Life from 1870 To 1920 written by Richard Franklin Pettigrew and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... XXXIV. Looking Ahead 1 have had a long experience with the public life of the United States; I have been repeatedly to Europe; I have studied the life of the East at first hand; I have read economics, history, sociology; I have been busily engaged in the life of the world for more than half of a century. If long experience and investigation, coupled with study and discussion, fit a man to understand what is going on about him, then I believe that I have the necessary qualifications for passing on the events that are now transpiring, and for predicting the trend of our economic and political life. There are certain things that I see very clearly; and certain tendencies that are working toward their logical goals just as inexorably as the sun passes across the heavens. These tendencies in our public life are similar to, though not identical with, similar forces that have operated in other societies during historic times; and they bear a very close resemblance to the forces that are now at work in all of the great capitalist countries of the world. In the fight over the annexation of Hawaii, I predicted that the road which was then being followed by the United States would lead speedily to empire. Well, the empire is already here--having arrived more speedily than I, in my wildest imaginings, ever dreamed that it would arrive. At the time of the struggle over the Hawaiian Treaty, few people believed that the United States could ever be an imperial nation. They were skeptical, or else they scoffed openly. Even the representatives of the great interests had little idea of what was happening. They knew that they were serving the men who had retained them, but with the exception of a very few among them they saw no farther than the immediate...

Download or read book Triumphant Plutocracy written by Richard Franklin Pettigrew and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.