Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives

Should we care that wealth in the United States is unequally distributed ― and getting more so every year? Should we worry that America's most wealthy, in just a generation, have more than doubled their share of the nation's wealth?
Our nation's highest leaders certainly don't think so. They either ignore, or dismiss, the huge gaps in income and wealth that divide us. But these gaps, author Sam Pizzigati shows in his compelling new book, are undermining nearly every aspect of our lives, from our health to our happiness, from our professions to our pastimes, from our arts to our Earth.
Greed and Good both reveals the horrific price we pay for tolerating inequality and dissects the case for greed, the old saws that apologists for inequality regularly trot out to justify the mammoth concentrations of wealth that tower all around us. These concentrations, Greed and Good argues, can and must be cut down to democratic size. And Greed and Good, in clear-headed and fascinating prose, even shows how.

Pizzigati currently edits Too Much, a quarterly commentary on capping excessive income and wealth, and serves on the boards of directors of two groups active in economic justice education and organizing, the Boston-based United for a Fair Economy, a national effort, and Progressive Maryland, a statewide alliance of labor, community, civil rights, and religious organizations.