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Tailspin

Steven Brill

Why did America, long a place where each generation expected to do better, stall, and who gained from the changes behind it?

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Author
Steven Brill

Why read it

  • You will see how a system built on merit can harden into a new aristocracy
  • You will learn how legal and financial engineering lifted short term profits while widening income inequality
  • You will understand how political money and a gridlocked government help explain why so many Americans have lost faith

Who it is for

  • An executive who wants to know why trust in institutions fell
  • A voter trying to understand why so many feel left behind
  • A business student weighing what short term profit costs

Contents

  1. CHAPTER 1
  2. The Protected and the Unprotected
  3. CHAPTER 2
  4. Meritocracy Becomes the New Aristocracy
  5. POWERING THE CASINO ECONOMY
  6. REVERSING THE TIDE
  7. A NON-ELITE MOBILITY ENGINE
  8. CHAPTER 3
  9. Casino Country
  10. THE TAKEOVER FIGHTER
  11. JUNK
  12. THE ULTIMATE DE-INVESTING TOOL
  13. THE “ACTIVISTS”
  14. BOOSTING BANK STOCKS BY GAMBLING WITH OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY
  15. INSURING AGAINST RECKLESS GAMBLES
  16. LIKE BETTING ON A PRIZEFIGHT
  17. THE RECKONING
  18. THE PUSHBACK
  19. THE VALEANT POSTER CHILD
  20. CHAPTER 4
  21. The Greening of the First Amendment
  22. BOOMERANG
  23. NO MORE “APPEASEMENT”
  24. THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON
  25. UMPIRES ON A TILTED PLAYING FIELD
  26. TRIPLE DIALING FOR DOLLARS
  27. ISSUE ONE
  28. CHAPTER 5
  29. Making Markets Efficient—and Marginalizing Those Left Behind
  30. MANAGEMENT FIGHTS BACK
  31. J.P. STEVENS AT THE BARRICADES
  32. THE DYNAMICS OF MARGINALIZATION
  33. CHAPTER 6
  34. “Lip Service” for America’s Workers
  35. “A HUNDRED-TO-NOTHING DEAL FOR AMERICA”
  36. LEARNING THE CODE
  37. CHAPTER 7
  38. Dysfunctional Democracy
  39. REFORMS THAT BOOMERANG
  40. GERRYMANDERING
  41. NEWT
  42. TECHNOLOGY: THE GREAT UNITER BECOMES THE GREAT DIVIDER
  43. THE BIPARTISANS
  44. CHAPTER 8
  45. Moat Nation
  46. WALL STREET MOATS
  47. CLOSING OFF THE COURTS
  48. THE CORPORATE CRIME MOAT
  49. THE DRUG MAKERS’ CORPORATE PLEA-BARGAINING MOAT
  50. BIG BUSINESS’S FIRST AMENDMENT MOAT
  51. FIRST AMENDMENT MOAT BUSTERS
  52. THE WALL STREET MOAT BUSTER
  53. THE ANTI-MOAT JUDGE
  54. CHAPTER 9
  55. Why Nothing Works
  56. THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT MOAT
  57. IGNORING THE TALENT DROUGHT
  58. THRIVING IN THE SWAMP
  59. THE HEALTHCARE.GOV FIASCO
  60. THE LONELY LOBBY

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