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02716aam a2200337 i 4500 001 A52D7F26AFC211EBAF585BBC28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210508010007 008 200130t20202020nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019044952 020 $a 1641770945 020 $a 9781641770941 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HT609 $b .K68 2020 082 00 $a 305.509/05 $2 23 100 1 $a Kotkin, Joel, $e author. 245 14 $a The coming of neo-feudalism : $b a warning to the global middle class / $c Joel Kotkin. 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Encounter Books, $c 2020. 300 $a vii, 274 pages ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a How feudalism came back -- The oligarchs -- The clerisy -- The embattled yeomanry -- The new serfs -- The new geography of feudalism -- A manifesto for the third estate. 520 $a "Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times. At the apex of the new order are two classes-a reborn clerical elite, the clerisy, which dominates the upper part of the professional ranks, universities, media and culture, and a new aristocracy led by tech oligarchs with unprecedented wealth and growing control of information. These two classes correspond to the old French First and Second Estates. Below these two classes lies what was once called the Third Estate. This includes the yeomanry, which is made up largely of small businesspeople, minor property owners, skilled workers and private-sector oriented professionals. Ascendant for much of modern history, this class is in decline while those below them, the new Serfs, grow in numbers-a vast, expanding property-less population. The trends are mounting, but we can still reverse them-if people understand what is actually occurring and have the capability to oppose them"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Social classes $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Distribution (Economic theory) $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Social history $y 21st century. 941 $a 2 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20210929010648.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210508010104.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A52D7F26AFC211EBAF585BBC28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search