TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolff,Richard D.
AU  - Barsamian,David
TI  - Occupy the economy: challenging capitalism 
T2  - Open media series
SN  - 9780872865679
AV  - HC106.84 W855 2012
U1  - 339.20973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - San Francisco, CA
PB  - City Lights Books
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - Occupy movement
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 2009-
KW  - Economic policy
N1  - Preoccupations -- Occupy and the economic crisis -- Occupy the economy
N2  - Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits, and job security decline. As more and more are impacted by the crisis, the system continues to make the very wealthy even richer. In eye-opening interviews with prominent economist Richard Wolff, David Barsamian probes the root causes of the current economic crisis, its unjust social consequences, and what can and should be done to turn things around. While others blame corrupt bankers and unregulated speculators, the government, or even the poor who borrowed, the authors show that the causes of the crisis run much deeper. They reach back to the 1970s when the capitalist system itself shifted, ending the century-old pattern of rising wages for U.S. workers and thereby enabling the top 1% to become ultra-rich at the expense of the 99%. Since then, economic injustice has become chronic and further corrupted politics. The Occu

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