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Makers and Takers

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What’s it about?

A sharp exposé of how finance hijacked the American economy, turning makers into takers and hollowing out the middle class.

You’ll learn

  • How financialization replaced productive capitalism
  • Why shareholder value became a destructive dogma
  • The real cost of the decline of manufacturing
  • Reforms to rebuild a maker economy