Screwed
The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It (Expanded)
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2007
168 pages
978-1-57675-529-7 (ISBN)
Description
Hartmann argues that the middle class is not the natural consequence of a free market based economy, but rather, the intended result of policies put into place to maximize the public good. Unfortunately, he maintains, the American middle class is on its deathbed.
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Thom Hartmann
Screwed: The Undeclared War Against Middle Class - And What We Can Do About It
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Introduction: Profits before People
- Part I: A Middle Class Requires Democracy
- Chapter 1 There Is No "Free" Market
- Chapter 2 How We the People Create the Middle Class
- Chapter 3 The Rise of the Corporatocracy
- Part II: Democracy Requires a Middle Class
- Chapter 4 The Myth of the Greedy Founders
- Chapter 5 Thomas Paine against the Freeloaders
- Chapter 6 Taxation without Representation
- Chapter 7 James Madison versus the Business of War
- Chapter 8 FDR and the Economic Royalists
- Part III: Governing for We the People
- Chapter 9 Too Important for the Private Sector
- Chapter 10 Knowledge Is Power
- Chapter 11 Medicine for Health, Not for Profit
- Chapter 12 The Truth about the Trust Fund
- Chapter 13 Setting the Rules of the Game
- Chapter 14 The Illegal Employer Problem
- Chapter 15 Leveling the Playing Field
- Conclusion: The Road to Victory
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About The Author
