Titres dans Classes sociales et disparité économique

About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africa’s wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans - and all stinking rich. Johann Rupert, Jannie Mouton, Markus Jooste and Christo Weise, to name a few. Julius Malema refers to them scathingly as ‘The Stellenbosch Mafia’, the very worst example of white monopoly capital. But who really are these mega-wealthy individuals, and what influence do they exert?

*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction* Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible...

In Italia - che pure non è tra i Paesi con più elevata disuguaglianza - i dieci individui più ricchi posseggono più risorse economiche dei circa tre milioni di individui più poveri. Molte sono le questioni di natura economica e politica che tale divario solleva. Quanta parte della ricchezza di un individuo deriva dal suo impegno e quanta invece è frutto del caso? Quanto contano eredità e origini sociali? È giusto che lo Stato si preoccupi di redistribuire la ricchezza o non dovrebbe piuttosto assicurare a ciascuno le stesse opportunità?

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" - one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on "the periphery".

Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known...

From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other side. In...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Inner Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, read by Finlay Robertson. Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child...

From TV's Real Housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with 50 affluent New Yorkers - including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers - to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege.

In einer schweren Krise wurde die NSDAP 1932 zur mit Abstand stärksten Partei gewählt. Bald konnte sie die Macht übernehmen und auf wachsende gesellschaftliche Zustimmung bauen. Hitler brauchte den Krieg – das Volk fürchtete sich davor. Dennoch terrorisierten schließlich 18 Millionen deutsche Soldaten Europa. Wie kam es dazu? Warum beteiligten sich Hunderttausende an beispiellosen Massenmorden? Tiefgründig analysiert Götz Aly die Herrschaftsmethoden, mit denen die NS-Machthaber Millionen Deutsche in gefügige Vollstrecker oder in vom Krieg abgestumpfte Mitmacher verwandelten.

In her first nonfiction book, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Xochitl Gonzalez traces her own history from working class Brooklyn to the corridors of power in order to illuminate and examine the class divide that defines America today Xochitl Gonzalez has changed...

A riveting investigation into a school, a scam, and a notorious college admissions scandal that exposes the inequalities and racial segregation of American education, from two award-winning New York Times journalists T.M. Landry College Prep, a small private school in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana...

A los 28 años, los planes de Stephanie Land de liberarse de las raíces de su ciudad natal, en el noroeste de la costa del Pacífico, para perseguir sus sueños de ir a la universidad y convertirse en escritora, se vieron truncados cuando una aventura de verano se convirtió en un embarazo inesperado. Se dedicó a la limpieza para llegar a fin de mes, y con un control tenaz de su sueño de brindarle a su hija la mejor vida posible, Stephanie trabajó durante el día y tomó clases en línea para obtener un título universitario y comenzó a escribir sin descanso.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Shortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty...

An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.

The cost of living crisis is not just about prices. It’s about distance. Distance between work and security. Distance between decisions and consequences. Distance between the people struggling to stay afloat and the systems shaping their lives. This book is not an attack on capitalism. It does not argue that wealth is immoral, that success requires apology, or that higher taxes alone will fix what feels broken. Markets work. Wealth creation matters. Incentives shape behavior.

Proust's In Search of Lost Time is many things. It is a staggering achievement, an evocation of an elite milieu, a literary reckoning with memory; it is also a massive reading challenge, a book more abandoned than read. For Laure Murat - who first read In Search... when she was twenty years old...

The All-American Way™ is a book about how we can rebuild a better society—one where dignity responsibility, and helping others matter most. In a world where old systems are falling apart, this book offers a hopeful plan. Not by destroying everything, but by pulling the right string—fixing what's broken and creating something better. With compassion, courage, and a strong belief in the future, this book invites readers to think differently about leadership, government, and what it truly means to serve others. The All-American Way™ isn't just a dream—it's a real effort to change things.

ABUNDANCE IS COMING. THE QUESTION IS WHO IT'S COMING FOR. Artificial intelligence is not just automating tasks. It is reshaping the economic foundations of society. Jobs that took years to master are now done in minutes. Productivity is accelerating beyond the limits of human labor. And the institutions built on the assumption that people must produce value to earn a living are beginning to crack. What happens to work when machines do it better? What happens to wealth when productivity no longer depends on human effort?

What happens when Boomers and Gen Z finally sit at the same table, only to realise they've been speaking different languages all along?

Modern Chains examines a truth we have been conditioned to ignore: our financial system functions as a silent mechanism of enslavement. Drawing on centuries of history, philosophy, and moral reasoning, author Neal Flesher reveals how our fiat monetary order corrodes human dignity and fractures communities. This book delivers a powerful appeal to moral clarity.