This is an important book. Best known for advising postcommunist and impoverished countries on development strategies, economist Sachs Common Wealth takes on the cesspool of debt, backwardness, and corruption that is the United States in this hard-hitting brief for a humane economy.
Sachs surveys an America where the rich get richer and the rest grow poorer, less secure, and less prepared for a modern economy; where a fixation by both parties on cutting taxes and coddling corporate donors Sachs issues stinging rebukes of Obama's policies creates insupportable federal deficits and stymies critical reforms and spending programs; and where an electorate stupefied by mass media and advertising ignores its better instincts and pursues a mindless consumerism.
The author's straightforward exposition, buttressed by a wealth of revealing tables and charts, sharply rebuts reigning free market orthodoxies and makes a compelling case for an activist state that redistributes wealth and makes life fairer and more productive for everyone. Sachs's remedies are less focused than his critique, and his pinning of all hope on the to year-old "Millennial Generation," aka "the children of the Internet," feels na ve and ageist. Still, his stimulating, staunchly progressive take on America's dysfunctions is a must-read for every concerned citizen.
Which is exactly why the "this book is trash" reviewer is afraid you will read it. Knowledge is in fact power. The message is right on and supported by lots of data.
In the book, Sachs criticizes excessive lobbying, as well as a poor response by American government to globalization, and describes American politics as a corporatocracy in which 'powerful corporate interest groups dominate the policy agenda. The book is pages long. It is about the 'pursuit of happiness' as one academic understands it. The book focuses on the changes going on in the world, the effects of these changes on the economic conditions and the necessary actions that will be required to deal with these changes in this new world if America is going to succeed.
Sachs criticizes excessive lobbying for interfering with democracy, and sees America's two-party system as stifling lesser parties. The main reason for America's majoritarian character is the electoral system for Congress. Members of Congress are elected in single-member districts according to the 'first-past-the-post' FPTP principle, meaning that the candidate with the plurality of votes is the winner of the congressional seat.
The losing party or parties win no representation at all. The first-past-the-post election tends to produce a small number of major parties, perhaps just two, a principle known in political science as Duverger's Law. Smaller parties are trampled in first-past-the-post elections. For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed.
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