The American Dream Vs The Gospel Of Wealth

Author : Norton Garfinkle
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300137804

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The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth by Norton Garfinkle Pdf

Norton Garfinkle paints a disquieting picture of America today: a nation increasingly divided between economic winners and losers, a nation in which the middle-class American Dream seems more and more elusive. Recent government policies reflect a commitment to a new supply-side winner-take-all Gospel of Wealth. Garfinkle warns that this supply-side economic vision favors the privileged few over the majority of American citizens striving to better their economic condition. Garfinkle employs historical insight and data-based economic analysis to demonstrate compellingly the sharp departure of the supply-side Gospel of Wealth from an American ideal that dates back to Abraham Lincoln—the vision of America as a society in which ordinary, hard-working individuals can get ahead and attain a middle-class living, and in which government plays an active role in expanding opportunities and ensuring against economic exploitation. Supply-side economic policies increase economic disparities and, Garfinkle insists, they fail on technical, factual, moral, and political grounds. He outlines a fresh economic vision, consonant with the great American tradition of ensuring strong economic growth, while preserving the middle-class American Dream.

Author : Mark Robert Rank PhD,Thomas A. Hirschl PhD,Kirk A. Foster PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199703302

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Chasing the American Dream by Mark Robert Rank PhD,Thomas A. Hirschl PhD,Kirk A. Foster PhD Pdf

The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being. The American Dream has captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, and to many, it represents the heart and soul of the country. But there is another, darker side to the bargain that America strikes with its people -- it is the price we pay for our individual pursuit of the American Dream. That price can be found in the economic hardship present in the lives of millions of Americans. In Chasing the American Dream, leading social scientists Mark Robert Rank, Thomas A. Hirschl, and Kirk A. Foster provide a new and innovative look into a curious dynamic -- the tension between the promise of economic opportunities and rewards and the amount of turmoil that Americans encounter in their quest for those rewards. The authors explore questions such as: -What percentage of Americans achieve affluence, and how much income mobility do we actually have? -Are most Americans able to own a home, and at what age? -How is it that nearly 80 percent of us will experience significant economic insecurity at some point between ages 25 and 60? -How can access to the American Dream be increased? Combining personal interviews with dozens of Americans and a longitudinal study covering 40 years of income data, the authors tell the story of the American Dream and reveal a number of surprises. The risk of economic vulnerability has increased substantially over the past four decades, and the American Dream is becoming harder to reach and harder to keep. Yet for most Americans, the Dream lies not in wealth, but in economic security, pursuing one's passions, and looking toward the future. Chasing the American Dream provides us with a new understanding into the dynamics that shape our fortunes and a deeper insight into the importance of the American Dream for the future of the country.

Author : Joseph L. DeVitis,John Martin Rich
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791429938

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The Success Ethic, Education, and the American Dream by Joseph L. DeVitis,John Martin Rich Pdf

Explores, interprets, and critically analyzes various success ethics that have shaped American culture and education. It also formulates new forms of the success ethic in order to uncover overlooked models and to overcome the shortcomings of previous genres.

Author : Andrew Carnegie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101097717

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The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings by Andrew Carnegie Pdf

Words of wisdom from American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie Focusing on Carnegie's most famous essay, "The Gospel of Wealth," this book of his writings, published here together for the first time, demonstrates the late steel magnate's beliefs on wealth, poverty, the public good, and capitalism. Carnegie's commitment to ensuring and promoting the welfare of his fellow human beings through philanthropic deeds ranged from donations to universities and museums to establishing more than 2,500 public libraries in the English-speaking world, and he gave away more than $350 million toward those efforts during his lifetime. The Gospel of Wealth is an eloquent testament to the importance of charitable giving for the public good. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : McGee, Paula L.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336920

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"Brand® New Theology by McGee, Paula L. Pdf

Author : Nina Gifford,Tom Ingersoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Capitalists and financiers
ISBN : UCLA:L0066533845

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The American Dream and the Gospel of Wealth in Nineteenth-century American Society by Nina Gifford,Tom Ingersoll Pdf

Author : Margot Opdycke Lamme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135022624

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Public Relations and Religion in American History by Margot Opdycke Lamme Pdf

Winner of The American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year Award, 2015 This study of American public relations history traces evangelicalism to corporate public relations via reform and the church-based temperance movement. It encompasses a leading evangelical of the Second Great Awakening, Rev. Charles Grandison Finney, and some of his predecessors; early reformers at Oberlin College, where Finney spent the second half of his life; leaders of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League of America; and twentieth-century public relations pioneer Ivy Ledbetter Lee, whose work reflecting religious and business evangelism has not yet been examined. Observations about American public relations history icon P. T. Barnum, whose life and work touched on many of the themes presented here, also are included as thematic bookends. As such, this study cuts a narrow channel through a wide swath of literature and a broad sweep of historical time, from the mid-eighteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century, to examine the deeper and deliberate strategies for effecting change, for persuading a community of adherents or opponents, or even a single soul to embrace that which an advocate intentionally presented in a particular way for a specific outcome—prescriptions, as it turned out, not only for religious conversion but also for public relations initiatives.

Author : Christa Wirth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004284579

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Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884-Present by Christa Wirth Pdf

Memories of Belonging is a three-generation oral-history study of the offspring of southern Italians who migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1913. Supplemented with the interviewees’ private documents and working from U.S. and Italian archives, Christa Wirth documents a century of transatlantic migration, assimilation, and later-generation self-identification. Her research reveals how memories of migration, everyday life, and ethnicity are passed down through the generations, altered, and contested while constituting family identities. The fact that not all descendants of Italian migrants moved into the U.S. middle class, combined with their continued use of hyphenated identities, points to a history of lived ethnicity and societal exclusion. Moreover, this book demonstrates the extent of forgetting that is required in order to construct an ethnic identity.

Author : Mark Robert Rank
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190212650

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The Poverty Paradox by Mark Robert Rank Pdf

The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century--why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? Based on his decades-long research and scholarship, one of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer. In The Poverty Paradox, Mark Robert Rank develops his unique perspective for understanding this puzzle. The approach is what he has defined over the years as structural vulnerability. Central to this new way of thinking is the distinction between those who lose out at the economic game versus why the game produces losers in the first place. Americans experiencing poverty tend to have certain characteristics placing them at a greater risk of impoverishment. Yet poverty results not from these factors, but rather from a lack of sufficient opportunities in society. In particular, the shortage of decent paying jobs and a strong safety net are paramount. Based upon this understanding, Rank goes on to detail a variety of strategies and programs to effectively alleviate poverty in the future. Implementing these policies has the added benefit of reinforcing several of the nation's most important values and principles. The Poverty Paradox represents a game changing examination of poverty and inequality. It provides the essential blueprint for finally combatting this economic injustice in the years ahead.

Author : Chris Lehmann
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612195094

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The Money Cult by Chris Lehmann Pdf

A grand and startling work of American history America was founded, we’re taught in school, by the Pilgrims and other Puritans escaping religious persecution in Europe—an austere and pious lot who established a culture that remained pure and uncorrupted until the Industrial Revolution got in the way. In The Money Cult, Chris Lehmann reveals that we have it backward: American capitalism has always been entangled with religion, and so today’s megapastors, for example, aren’t an aberration—they’re as American as Benjamin Franklin. Tracing American Christianity from John Winthrop to the rise of the Mormon Church and on to the triumph of Joel Osteen, The Money Cult is an ambitious work of history from a widely admired journalist. Examining nearly four hundred years of American history, Lehmann reveals how America’s religious leaders became less worried about sin and the afterlife and more concerned with the material world, until the social gospel was overtaken by the gospel of wealth. Showing how American Christianity came to accommodate—and eventually embrace—the pursuit of profit, as well as the inescapability of economic inequality, The Money Cult is a wide-ranging and revelatory book that will make you rethink what you know about the form of American capitalism so dominant in the world today, as well as the core tenets of America itself.

Author : Andrew Carnegie
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547019930

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The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie Pdf

This is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. Carnegie proposed that the best way of dealing with the new phenomenon of wealth inequality was for the wealthy to utilize their surplus means in a responsible and thoughtful manner. This approach was contrasted with traditional bequest (patrimony), where wealth is handed down to heirs, and other forms of bequest e.g., where wealth is willed to the state for public purposes.

Author : Marc Pilisuk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781567206876

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Who Benefits from Global Violence and War by Marc Pilisuk Pdf

Military, economic, and environmental violence in the era of globalization cause immense suffering and may ultimately threaten the existence of life as we know it, but author Pilisuk explains that the future can change if we understand and act upon the roots of violence. A professor emeritus of psychology and human and community development, Pilisuk explains how most violence is the product of a human-built social order in which some people and institutions control most of the resources, make the decisions that necessitate violence, and operate with minimal accountability. The common root of war, poverty, environmental destruction, and other forms of violence is spotlighted. Such violence, says Pilisuk, is a natural consequence of a system inordinately influenced by a relatively small, interconnected group of corporate, military, and government leaders with the power to instill fear, to increase their excessive fortunes, and to restrict information, particularly about their own clandestine dealings. This text includes scholarship hailing from across disciplines, combined with information from investigative journalism, and insights from nonprofit watchdog groups, all shedding light on centralized power and its effects. Pilisuk presents material including the range of tactics used to manipulate and destroy adversaries, the human capacity to kill as a challenge, and how media is used by powerful groups to manipulate fear and maintain their power. Here, readers find solid social science to support what whistleblowers and social critics are observing about a system that needs change.

Author : Mark Anthony Martinez
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781565492677

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The Myth of the Free Market by Mark Anthony Martinez Pdf

* Explains how the 2008 financial meltdown came about and how to revitalize global and domestic economies * Shows how capitalist economies developed and why the state matters in their functioning Free market purists claim that the state is an inefficient institution that does little for society beyond providing stability and protection. The activities related to distributing resources and economic growth, they say, are better left to the invisible hand of the marketplace. These notions now seem tragically misguided in the wake of the 2008 market collapse and bailout. Mark Martinez describes how the flawed myth of the "invisible hand" distorted our understanding of how modern capitalist markets developed and actually work. Martinez draws from history to illustrate that political processes and the state are not only instrumental in making capitalist markets work but that there would be no capitalist markets or wealth creation without state intervention. He brings his story up to the present day to show how the seeds of an unprecedented government intervention in the financial markets were sown in past actions. The Myth of the Free Market is a fascinating and accessible introduction to comparative economic systems as well as an incisive refutation of the standard mantras of neoclassical free market economic theory.

Author : D. L. Mayfield
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830845989

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The Myth of the American Dream by D. L. Mayfield Pdf

Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power—the central values of the American dream. But are they compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors.

Author : Steve Brouwer,Paul Gifford,Susan D. Rose
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415917123

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Exporting the American Gospel by Steve Brouwer,Paul Gifford,Susan D. Rose Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.