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Author:
Lin, Ken-Hou author.
Title:
Divested : inequality in the age of finance / Ken-hou Lin, Megan Tobias Neely.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject:
Finance--United States.
Wealth--United States.
Equality--United States.
Other Authors:
Neely, Megan Tobias, author.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The great reversal -- The social question -- Finance ascends -- The financial turn of corporate America -- American life in debt -- A people's portfolio of the United States -- The aftermath -- Conclusion.
Summary:
In Divested, Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely demonstrate why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of big finance. The growth of the financial sector has dramatically transformed the American economy by redistributing resources from workers and families into the hands of owners, executives, and financial professionals. The average American is now divested from a world driven by the maximization of financial profit. Lin and Neely provide systematic evidence to document how the ascendance of finance on Wall Street, Main Street, and among households is a fundamental cause of economic inequality. They argue that finance has reshaped the economy in three important ways. First, the financial sector extracts resources from the economy at large without providing economic benefits to those outside the financial services industry. Second, firms in other economic sectors have become increasingly involved in lending and investing, which weakens the demand for labor and the bargaining power of workers. And third, the escalating consumption of financial products by households shifts risks and uncertainties once shouldered by unions, corporations, and governments onto families. A clear, comprehensive, and convincing account of the forces driving economic inequality in America, Divested warns us that the most damaging consequence of the expanding financial system is not simply recurrent financial crises but a widening social divide between the have and have-nots. -- Adapted from publisher website.
ISBN:
0190638311
9780190638313
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1099539144
LCCN:
2019017343
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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