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The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us Paperback - 1996
by Robert Frank; Philip J. Cook
Selected by Business Week as one of the 10 best business books of the year, this text is "a major contribution to the debate about the causes and consequences of inequality in America".--The New York Times Book Review.
Summary
During the last two decades, the top one percent of U.S. earners captured more than 40 percent of the country's total earnings growth, one of the largest shifts any society has endured without a revolution or military defeat. Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook argue that behind this shift lies the spread of "winner-take-all markets"markets in which small differences in performance give rise to enormous differences in reward. Long familiar in sports and entertainment, this payoff pattern has increasingly permeated law, finance, fashion, publishing, and other fields. The result: in addition to the growing gap between rich and poor, we see important professions like teaching and engineering in aching need of more talent. This relentless emphasis on coming out on topthe best-selling book, the blockbuster film, the Super Bowl winnerhas molded our discourse in ways that many find deeply troubling.
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Rabo Karabekian, the protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Bluebeard, is an abstract expressionist painter of modest renown ("a footnote in Art History," as he describes himself).
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- Title The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
- Author Robert Frank; Philip J. Cook
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London
- Date September 1, 1996
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780140259957 / 0140259953
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 5.56 x 0.65 in (21.39 x 14.12 x 1.65 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-13340
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.4
Media reviews
The New York Times Book Review.
"Should be at the forefront of everyone's attention"
Lester C. Thurow, Los Angeles Times
"Frank and Cook break new ground by linking the win-at-all costs mentality to economic and cultural problems."
Business Week
"A fun, informative, and provocative read"
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Citations
- New York Times, 09/01/1996, Page 24
- Publishers Weekly, 07/22/1996, Page 0
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