The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Much of the income at the top is instead what we have called rents. These rents have moved dollars from the bottom and middle to the top, and distorted the market to the advantage of some and to the disadvantage of others.

As we gaze out at the popular fervor in the streets, we might ask ourselves some questions. When will it come to America? When will it come to other countries of the West? In