Money : who has how much and why /
To the question "Are the rich getting richer?" Hacker notes that in 1979, 13,505 individuals or families earned the equivalent of $1 million per year. Only fifteen years later, that number had jumped to an incredible 68,064. The last few decades have indeed witnessed the rise of the "...
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New York :
Scribner,
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Table of Contents:
- Searching for sense
- America's way with money
- Three nations
- $1 million a year
- At the very top
- Hail to the chief!
- M.D.s, J.D.s, Ph. D.s
- Outcastes and immigrants
- Four sisters
- The gender gap: contours and causes
- Greed, talent, and other enigmas
- Money and the world we want.