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

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

the scientists whose research and ideas have transformed our lives in the past two hundred years have, for the most part, not been motivated by the pursuit of wealth. This is fortunate, for if they had, they would have become bankers and not scientists. It is the pursuit of truth, the pleasure of using their minds, the sense of achievement from discovery—and the recognition of their peers—that matters most.