The Rigged Game: Corporate America and a People Betrayed
- ISBN-10
- 1551642816
- ISBN-13
- 9781551642819
- Pages
- 214
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Black Rose Books
- Author
- John Hively
Description
Any economic downturn, Hively sees is nothing more than an adjustment to the distribution of wealth and income, and not in favor of working people. Using statistics from the Commerce Department and other sources, and beginning with the Great Depression, Hively traces how recessions begin, how corporations and financial markets are interconnected and describes the consequences of current distribution of wealth and income practices. His economic analysis, and historical comparisons, blend to show that the current practice of distribution of wealth and income has left a huge concentration of wealth at the top. During the last 30 years, income and wealth in North America have increasingly shifted from those who work for a living to an economically and politically connected, but small, group of affluent people: in almost all categories the upper 10% of American families soared, while the remaining 90% either stagnated, or at the lower end, actually declined. - from publisher description.
