The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
In this pathbreaking book, the subject of considerable pre-publication, two distinguished economists draw attention to an important and disturbing new trend that has dramatically transformed our economy in the last two decades: the spread of "winner-take-all" markets, where marginal differences...
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In this pathbreaking book, the subject of considerable pre-publication, two distinguished economists draw attention to an important and disturbing new trend that has dramatically transformed our economy in the last two decades: the spread of "winner-take-all" markets, where marginal differences in performance translate into huge differences in reward.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140259957 (0140259953)
Publish date: September 1st 1996
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Robert Frank and Philip J. Cook have written a most interesting book that explains why the salary of a typical American executive today is 120 times that of the average manufacturing worker when it was 35 times that in 1974; why "the incomes of the top 1 percent more than doubled in real terms betwe...
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