Practicing citizens know our economy is out of balance. People are unable to pursue the American Dream in the same way they did after World War II. Many feel that they have lost ground or that they still can not get ahead. Amassed capital can powerfully influence the legislation but also the rules by which they do business. This leaves small business, labor, people new to the job market with few places to go to improve their personal economics.
INEQUALITY is a website that has been tracking this issue for a long time.
Many people enjoy Robert Reich. Here is his speech “inequality for All”
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
The foundations of capitalism’s success – the balance between freedom and responsibility, reinforced by the welfare state – are given as core parts of the solution by Collier for the rising and frightening divisions between families, cities and nations.
Gordon, Robert J. in The Rise and Fall of American Growth America’s high standard of living grew from a post Civil War revolution that created our infrastructure that is now endangers by years of neglect.
CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Thomas Piketty Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Piketty documents the rise in of income inequality that has occurred since 1977 among many other things.
Cowen, Tyler’s Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
I a book we hope in not true. Cowen forecasts that modern economies are delaminating into two groups: a small minority of highly educated people who are capable of working collaboratively with automated systems will become a wealthy aristocracy; the vast majority will earn little or nothing, surviving on low-priced goods created by the first group, living in shantytowns, working with highly automated production systems.
Diamandis, Peter H.. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. Sometimes it is good to read a book that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world’s most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom”
