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The Wealth Inequality Reader 3 reviews
Paul Krugman, Peter Barnes, ...
Dollars & Sense, 2008
A Fresh Perspective on Wealth Inequality, Great for Educators
I am a sociology professor who has searched long and hard for short, readable articles to give my students an introduction to thinking critically about wealth and poverty. This reader assembles a range of interesting readings that one is unlikely to find in the standard college textbook on poverty and inequality in America. There is a nice attention to issues like taxation, housing and property ...
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The Triangle Fire 11 reviews
Leon Stein
ILR Press, 2001
Great historical account of a true American disaster
As a Professor of Fire Science I am constantly seeking out books having to do with great historical fires in American. These books are to be used as course research papers by my students and typically are not available via the library network. I trust many of my students are buying their copies from Amazon.com a name that can be trusted.
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Who Will Tell The People? : The Betrayal Of American Democracy16 reviews
William Greider
Simon & Schuster, 1993
History Proved Him Right
It's funny how some negative reviews of this book spoke about how wrong Greider was and how right corporate superheros like Jack Welch were. Now in 2003 as America struggles to rebuild after the savage [things] that these corporate overlords have done (Enron? Worldcom? Global Crossing?) we see just how accurate Greider's predications were. The men who rose to power in the 1990's didn't get there ...
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The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy20 reviews
Marjorie Kelly
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003
Essential reading
As much information as I absorb about our state of government, there are still some very broad assumptions which pass under my radar. This book shines a brilliant light on issues that are critically important for ANYONE who wishes to consider themselves 'informed'. The most basic mythology exposed: that those who speculate have superior & perpetual rights over those who earn by labor. The bias ...
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The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy17 reviews
William Greider
Simon & Schuster, 2004
Encouraging a little impudence
"One of this book's implicity objectives is to encourage a little impudence, especially among younger people. I do not expect my prose to blow away their caution and skepticism. but I do hope they keep their minds open to the possibility that some of what I have observed may be right and that it speaks to their own experiences and thinking. If so, they need to ask some questions, to entertain ...
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Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country
William Greider
Rodale Books, 2009
Perhaps no one is better equipped to analyze the current state of our democracy than legendary reporter William Greider. He has covered politics from the nation?s capital for four decades?for the Washington Post , Rolling Stone , and most recently The Nation ?and has earned a reputation as one of our most incisive, uncompromising truth-tellers and social critics. In his bestseller Who Will Tell the People , Greider opened the American ...
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One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism45 reviews
William Greider
Simon & Schuster, 1998
Globalism at its worst
The negative reviewers and neocons would like to have you believe that everything is hunky dory thanks to globalism when in fact none of it is the case. There is good globalism where there broad prosperity for all and then there is unchecked globalism aka unchecked capitalism aka corporatism aka FASCISM where only the corporate dictators are prosperous. The reality, as Greider continuously ...
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Companies We Keep (Revised & Expanded): Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place 1 review
John Abrams
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008
An inspiring and practical guide for all progressive minded business people
I highly recommend this book. It is a revision of Abrams' 2005 book, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place, which I read when it came out. He takes you through the history of South Mountain, a 32 year old design/build company he founded and examines the eight cornerstone philosophies and practices that underpin South Mountain and any green business that ...
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic68 reviews
Randy Shilts
Stonewall Inn Editions, 2000
How the fight against AIDS was initially lost....
Even though I've been fortunate to never have had AIDS touch my life, this book still brought home a powerhouse of feelings - shame at seeing how poorly so many of our fellow human beings were treated, anger at the way their suffering was treated as insignificant, grief at how many people have been lost to such an insidious disease and outrage at the way our government - and governmental health ...
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Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country43 reviews
William Greider
Simon & Schuster, 1989
The Hobo Philosopher
"Secrets of the Temple" is a book that discusses the interaction of the Federal Reserve and Government economic policy. This book is basically a detailed analysis of the Reagan administration and the Volcker chairmanship of the Reserve.
Once again Mr. Greider teaches us how the "clock" works by taking us on an intimate tour through the internal mechanisms of the "clock". This is the hands on ...
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America: Renewal or Ruin Will America Survive the 21st Century?3 reviews
Lawrence William Greider
1st Books Library, 2003
Insightful and thoroughly researched
I found this book to be quite enjoyable, if not a bit too short. The author has researched his topic quite extensively. I found myself agreeing more often than not. The author describes how other great civilizations have become fantastic failures all for the same reason ... decaying morals, dying principals. The author links those same empires with our own and points to a similar conclusion, ...
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The Real World of Employee Ownership (ILR Press Books)1 review
John Logue, Jacquelyn Yates
ILR Press, 2002
Wonderful
buy this book if you want to know the "Real World" of employee ownership and not just what you read in the papers!
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Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace 13 reviews
William Greider
PublicAffairs, 1998
How We Got Here
In 200 startling pages, William Gireder tells America how our insatiable appetite for all things military has led us into a national dilemma, the economic and global implications of which are frightening. Grieder's 'wake up call' details a bloated military industrial machine which has consumed much of our national wealth, and now has nowhere to direct its massive inventories. Greider examines the ...
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Trouble With Money (Larger Agenda Series)2 reviews
William S. Rukeyser
Whittle Communication, 1989
The Hobo Philosopher
The Trouble with money is a thin book. It seems to have resulted from a lecture that Mr. Grieder was asked to do for the banking and investment community. As usual it is very good and economically informative. Mr. Greider seems to have the problem nailed. And today we see it all happening over again. This book is well worth reading but SECRETES of the Temple is a much deeper analysis. I know Mr. ...
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