Monopoly Restored How the Super-Rich Robbed Main Street /

• Main Author: Luzkow, Jack Lawrence (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Schools of economics.; Economic policy.; Economic history.; Heterodox Economics.; Economic Policy.; Economic History.

This book is a work of contemporary economic history focusing primarily on the US and the UK. It shows that, historically, much of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy has been based on inheritance, tax evasion, political influence, or wage theft. Today, much of the wealth of the rentier class-the super-...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Democracy Corrupted
• 3. The Rise and Rise of Wall Street and the City of London
• 4. The Ascendancy of the Corporate Elite
• 5. The Decline of Main Street and the Middle Class
• 6. The Politics of Taxes
• 7. The Business of Healthcare
• 8. Big and Bigger Agribusiness: Farm to Table
• 9. What Can Be Done?