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作者： Thom Hartmann 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2007-4-1字数：版次： 1页数： 249印刷时间： 2007/04/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781576754634包装： 平装内容简介
Beginning with the Reagan administration,the U.S.government has steadily instituted policies and legislation that favor corporations over citizens,argues Air America host Hartmann(The Ultimate Sacrifice).Analyzing the rhetoric and policies of the current administration's "compassionate conservatism," Hartmann goes on to detail the ways in which safety nets for working people(from progressive taxation to antitrust legislation to Social Security)have been steadily weakened,and argues that an empowered,educated middle class is crucial to a functioning democracy.Chapters detail the ways in which what gets called "the free market" is not really free(for good reason,he notes),how "We the People create the middle class," how the policies of the Founding Fathers and figures like FDR still have a lot to teach us,and ways for "Leveling the Playing Field." Though far from comprehensive,and despite its sensationalist title,Hartmann's latest is an intelligent critique of the contemporary plight of the middle class.
Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives,and corporations are waging against America's middle class?a war that's reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor.This book asks: How did this happen? Who's benefiting? And how can we stop it?
目录
Foreword by Mark Crispin Miller
Introduction: Profits before People
Part I: A Middle Class Requires Democracy
Chapter 1There Is No "Free" Market
Chapter 2How We the People Create the Middle Class
Chapter 3The Rise of the Corporatocracy
Part Ih Democracy Requires a Middle Class
Chapter 4The Myth of the Greedy Founders
Chapter 5Thomas Paine against the Freeloaders
Chapter 6Taxation without Representation
Chapter 7Tames Madison versus the Business of War
Chapter 8FDR and the Economic Royalists
Part IIh Governing for We the People
Chapter 9Too Important for the Private Sector
Chapter 10Knowledge Is Power
Chapter 11Medicine for Health, Not for Profit
Chapter 12The Truth about the Trust Fund
Chapter 13Setting the Rules of the Game
Chapter 14The Illegal Employer Problem
Chapter 15Leveling the Playing Field
Conclusion: The Road to Victory
Afterword by Greg Palast
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
