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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2016-05-17
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 9780553447231
- Book Title
- Makers and Takers : the Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Economic History, Economic Conditions, Public Policy / Economic Policy
- Item Weight
- 22.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown/Archetype
ISBN-10
0553447238
ISBN-13
9780553447231
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217056566
Product Key Features
Book Title
Makers and Takers : the Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Economic History, Economic Conditions, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Political Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-040751
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
332.0973
Synopsis
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America? A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind. -- The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum. A key reason, says Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, is the fact that Wall Street is no longer supporting Main Street businesses that create the jobs for the middle and working class. She draws on in-depth reporting and interviews at the highest rungs of business and government to show how the "financialization of America"--the phenomenon by which finance and its way of thinking have come to dominate every corner of business--is threatening the American Dream. Now updated with new material explaining how our corrupted financial system propelled Donald Trump to power, Makers and Takers explores the confluence of forces that has led American businesses to favor balance-sheet engineering over the actual kind, greed over growth, and short-term profits over putting people to work. From the cozy relationship between Wall Street and Washington, to a tax code designed to benefit wealthy individuals and corporations, to forty years of bad policy decisions, she shows why so many Americans have lost trust in the system, and why it matters urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both "Takers," those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and "Makers," businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward., Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America? "A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." -- The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum. A key reason, says Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, is the fact that Wall Street is no longer supporting Main Street businesses that create the jobs for the middle and working class. She draws on in-depth reporting and interviews at the highest rungs of business and government to show how the "financialization of America"--the phenomenon by which finance and its way of thinking have come to dominate every corner of business--is threatening the American Dream. Now updated with new material explaining how our corrupted financial sys-tem propelled Donald Trump to power, Makers and Takers explores the confluence of forces that has led American businesses to favor balance-sheet engineering over the actual kind, greed over growth, and short-term profits over putting people to work. From the cozy relationship between Wall Street and Washington, to a tax code designed to benefit wealthy individuals and corporations, to forty years of bad policy decisions, she shows why so many Americans have lost trust in the sys-tem, and why it matters urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both "Takers," those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and "Makers," businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward., Award-winning business journalist Rana Foroohar shows how the shortsighted and misguided financial practices and mentality that nearly toppled the global economy in 2008 have come to infiltrate all corners of American business and how this "financialization of America" is putting us on a dangerous collision course to another catastrophic economic meltdown. Drawing on in-depth reporting and exclusive interviews at the highest rungs of Wall Street and Washington, Foroohar shows how this phenomenon of our best and brightest companies behaving like glorfied banks is solidifying Wall Street's reign over Main Street, widening the gap between rich and poor, hampering economic progress, and threatening the future of the American Dream. Exploring the forces that have led American businesses to favor banking over innovating, balancing-sheet engineering over the actual kind, and the pursuit of short-term corporate profits over job creation, she shows how the infiltration of financialized thinking is so gravely harming our economy and society and why these issues matter so deeply and urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both "Takers"-the financiers destroying jobs, increasing economic inequality, and stiflng job creation-and also of "Makers"-the companies and communities where finance has been put back into the service of the real economy-she'll reveal how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward.
LC Classification Number
HB3722.F655 2016
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