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James Piereson is president of the William E. Simon Foundation and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Kennedy Assassination Shattered American Liberalism (Encounter Books, 2007) and editor of The Pursuit of Liberty: Can the mostra'n més Ideals That Made America Great Provide a Model for the World? (Encounter Books, 2008). His essays on politics and culture have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Criterion, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and The American Spectator. mostra'n menys

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A good introduction to the arguments against the idea that we are living in a horrid time where the rich have everything and everyone else is living in squalid sewage. While the rich have gotten richer, the poor and the middle classes have gotten richer too, just not as quickly. My life, as an American, is literally more comfortable and easier and better in just my short life from the 1980s to the 2010s. Those scholars, pundits, and demagogues who focus only on the growth of assets for the top 1 or 10 percent in that time are focusing on the wrong thing. The book serves as an appetizer for arguments against Thomas Pinketty's error-ridden and misguided Capital in the Twenty-First Century. A good start and some leads for further readings (though a dedicated "Suggested Readings" section would have been nice).… (més)
 
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