The Trouble with Billionaires: How The Super-Rich Hijacked The World (And How We Can Take It Back) - Softcover

Brooks, Neils

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185168994X ISBN 13: 9781851689941

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2013

Synopsis

In this searing and entertaining indictment of the super-rich, Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks challenge the idea that today’s cavernous income inequality is the result of merit, and reveal how the global economic system has been hijacked by the wealthiest, with disastrous consequences for us all.

The high taxes and strong social programmes of the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s gave us sky-high economic growth and rising equality. In recent years, however, we’ve been constantly told that taxes and government spending are bad. McQuaig and Brooks systematically debunk these claims. As their research shows, not only do lower taxes correlate with worse societal outcomes – from health to the environment – they also fail to produce economic prosperity.

 

A daring challenge to the conventional wisdom, The Trouble with Billionaires provides the most compelling case yet for rejecting the Coalition’s mean-spirited mix of tax breaks for the rich and austerity for the rest.

About this title

About the Author:

Linda McQuaig is an op-ed columnist in the Toronto Star and author of seven national bestsellers, including It’s the Crude, Dude and Shooting the Hippo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 185168994X
• ISBN 13: 9781851689941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288