"An urgent, absorbing exposé--why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did. What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high-net-worth entrepreneur, and a twenty-something graduate student have...

The early modern marketplace and its colonial encounter:A journey through early modern trading spaces --The market turned upside down --Remaking the marketplace:Making a colonial marketplace --The resurgence of early modern market value --Confronting the colonial marketplace:Revolution in the...

Who gets rich, and why? -- Where did private equity come from? -- Who are they? -- What do they do? -- How are they any different? -- How do you study them? -- Where's the value? -- Do we even have time? -- To buy or not to buy? -- What should we think of ourselves?

One of our most influential progressive voices tells the story of the hollowing of the American middle class and lays out the choices that we must make now to ensure that the dream of prosperity can live on for generations. - Provided by the publisher.