- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Back Bay Books
2012.
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xxii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-529).
- ISBN
- 9780316220217
- Introduction : a tale of two taxes / Janet Byrne
- Advice from the 1 percent : lever up, drop out / Michael Lewis
- The widening gyre : inequality, polarization, and the crisis / Paul Krugman and Robin Wells
- Take a stand : sit in / Philip Dray
- The 5 percent / Michael Hiltzik
- Hidden in plain sight : the problem of silos and silences in finance / Gillian Tett
- What good is Wall Street? / John Cassidy
- Inequality and intemperate policy / Raghuram Rajan
- Your house as an ATM : the myth of homeownership / Bethany McLean
- Against political capture : occupiers, muckrakers, progressives / Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
- A nation of business junkies / Arjun Appadurai
- Causes of financial crises past and present : the role of the this-time-is-different syndrome / Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff
- Government as tough love : sitting down with Robert Shiller / Brandon Adams
- Occupy Wall Street's anarchist roots / David Graeber
- Economic insecurity and inequality breed political instability / Nouriel Roubini
- A master class in occupation / Chris Hedges
- Is democracy still in the streets? / James Miller
- The arc of communism : lessons for Occupy Wall Street? / Robert M. Buckley
- Globalization and the perils of democracy / Pankaj Mishra
- "15M" : the indignados / Salvador Martí Puig
- In the footsteps of Salvador Allende : Chile and the Occupy Movement / Ariel Dorfman
- ¡Basta ya! : Chilean students say "enough" / Nora Lustig, Alejandra Mizala, and G. Eduardo Silva
- Occupying the Israeli street : the tents protest movement and social justice in the Holy Land / Neri Zilber
- From Tahrir to Zuccotti : justice but no peace in Egypt / Chris Stanton
- From resistance to revolution à la française / Robert Zaretsky
- Occupy the media : journalism for (and by) the 99 percent / Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
- On the meaning of occupation / Michael Greenberg
- Unions build the middle class / David Madland, Karla Walter, and Nick Bunker
- Occupy Wall Street : the first quarter and beyond / George Gresham
- Where is the demand for redistribution? / Ilyana Kuziemko and Michael I. Norton
- U.S. cultural decline : the overlooked intangibles / Brandon Adams
- Civil society at ground zero / Rebecca Solnit
- The making of the American 99 percent and the collapse of the middle class / Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich
- Occupy K Street / Paul Volcker
- Interview with Emmanuel Saez / Kathleen Maclay
- Taxing high earnings / Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez
- Commentary / J. Bradford DeLong
- Boycott! : Michael Lewis interviews himself / Michael Lewis
- Reforming Western capitalism / Martin Wolf
- How Occupy Wall Street can restore the clout of the 99 percent / Scott Turow
- Psychopaths, Inc. : on corporate personhood / Joel Bakan
- Occupy democracy / Robert B. Reich
- Taxing the 1 percent of the 1 percent / David Cay Johnston
- The short sell : an interview with Matt Taibbi / Tom Verlaine
- Smart loans / Eliot Spitzer
- Enough with occupying Wall Street : it's time to start preoccupying Wall Street / Lawrence Weschler
- Reframing the debate / Tyler Cowen and Veronique de Rugy
- Voluntary financial transactions tax / Brandon Adams
- Medicare for all / Jeff Madrick
- Countering the dangers of procyclicality / Daniel Gross
- Principal reduction : how to reduce the mortgage burden / Felix Salmon
- How bankruptcy contributed to the mortgage crisis and how it could help the economy recover / Michelle J. White and Wenli Li
- Occupy global capitalism / Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Debt jubilee / Michael Hudson
- Another way to resist Wall Street : copies, smuggling, and "globalization from below" / Gordon Mathews
- Coda : "the last capitalist on Wall Street" / Brandon Adams.
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