Toxic Wealth

Author : Orla Cashman,James A. Twaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313359927

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Toxic Wealth by Orla Cashman,James A. Twaite Pdf

This volume spotlights the unique problems that often accompany a high-income lifestyle and offers guidelines that can help individuals avoid the pitfalls wealth may bring. Two therapists show how the culture of affluence in America creates unique problems for wealthy adults and children, often resulting in poor psycho-social adjustment, anxiety, low self-esteem, and the inability to have fun. The affluent are under tremendous pressure to achieve. They are subject to a myriad of negative stereotypes that make it difficult for them to have a normal social life. They are taken advantage of, preyed upon, and ridiculed. When they seek professional help for their problems, they may receive little sympathy. This book is a sage and insightful primer aimed at all readers who have some wealth, whether inherited or amassed through personal effort. The consciousness-raising here includes vignettes from the treatment rooms of the authors, who have helped many wealthy individuals and families deal with the fallout from the myths with which our culture burdens them. Specific guidelines on how to deal with problems are presented.

Author : Thomas M. Shapiro
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780465094875

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Toxic Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro Pdf

"Everyone concerned about the toxic effects of inequality must read this book."--Robert B. Reich "This is one of the most thought-provoking books I have read on economic inequality in the US."--William Julius Wilson Since the Great Recession, most Americans' standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality's impact differs by race; African Americans' net wealth is just a tenth that of white Americans, and over recent decades, white families have accumulated wealth at three times the rate of black families. In our increasingly diverse nation, sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues, wealth disparities must be understood in tandem with racial inequities--a dangerous combination he terms "toxic inequality." In Toxic Inequality, Shapiro reveals how these forces combine to trap families in place. Following nearly two hundred families of different races and income levels over a period of twelve years, Shapiro's research vividly documents the recession's toll on parents and children, the ways families use assets to manage crises and create opportunities, and the real reasons some families build wealth while others struggle in poverty. The structure of our neighborhoods, workplaces, and tax code-much more than individual choices-push some forward and hold others back. A lack of assets, far more common in families of color, can often ruin parents' careful plans for themselves and their children. Toxic inequality may seem inexorable, but it is not inevitable. America's growing wealth gap and its yawning racial divide have been forged by history and preserved by policy, and only bold, race-conscious reforms can move us toward a more just society.

Author : Margaret M. Lynch,Daylle Deanna Schwartz M.S.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781101615669

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Tapping Into Wealth by Margaret M. Lynch,Daylle Deanna Schwartz M.S. Pdf

Following in the footsteps of New York Times bestseller The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner, this book from renowned Tapping expert Margaret Lynch teaches us how to use Tapping (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to clear the blocks to achieving greater wealth. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as Tapping, have become a popular tool for realizing personal goals. For many of us, increasing our wealth is one of our greatest ambitions, but also an area where we feel the most stuck because we have limiting fears and beliefs that sabotage our success. EFT uses the fingertips to tap on acupuncture points while emotionally tuning in to negative attitudes and past experiences, thereby clearing the inner blocks to attracting and managing wealth. Tapping Into Wealth includes QR codes that link to video demonstrations of Tapping techniques. Discover how Tapping can help you release your old views of money and open the door to more wealth than you ever imagined.

Author : Russell E. Holcombe
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781937110147

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You Should Only Have to Get Rich Once by Russell E. Holcombe Pdf

"The financial planning industry has grown into a massive factory -one that's definitely not designed to help you create the life you want ... Holcombe challenges you to think differently about your money ... learn how to avoid the traps of the financial factory ... be quipped to ask better questions of your financial advisor ... develop the instincts you need to avoid toxic advice"--Publisher's description.

Author : Sam Polk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476785998

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For the Love of Money by Sam Polk Pdf

"A former hedge-fund trader presents a memoir about coming of age on Wall Street, his obsessive pursuit of money, his disillusionment and the radical new way he has come to define success, "--NoveList

Author : Corin Grillo
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781608688135

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Angel Wealth Magic by Corin Grillo Pdf

Simple Steps to Hire the Divine and Unlock Your Miraculous Financial Flow Through her work with thousands of people, Corin Grillo has discovered a form of creative magic that is both accessible and effective. In Angel Wealth Magic, she speaks to anyone looking for solutions to grow a bank account, manifest an entrepreneurial dream, or create the home life they crave. All we need to do is call upon the divine intervention that is ready and able to help us fulfill our financial and best-life dreams. Along the way, Corin teaches us how to detox from self-defeating notions of lack, unworthiness, and personal or familial shame. Through simple practices, rituals, and everyday mindset shifts, she shows us how to be the happy, healthy, and truly fulfilled people we were meant to be.

Author : Nicole Haddow
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781743822173

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The Ethical Investor by Nicole Haddow Pdf

A fun, practical guide to growing your wealth while making a difference Is the money in your bank account helping to fund the fossil fuel and tobacco industries? Do you know which companies your superannuation is invested in? Want to put your money where your ethics are but have no idea where to start? Journalist Nicole Haddow is passionate about financial freedom, but as an investment novice she wanted to find out – is it possible to grow wealth while also doing your bit for the planet and its population? In The Ethical Investor, Nicole guides us through the steps she took to ensure her hard-earned cash isn’t going straight into the pockets of toxic companies. She reassesses what her money currently contributes to and seeks ways to make her strategies greener, chatting with industry experts on everything from superannuation and shares to neo banks and apps to help you get started in micro-investing. Nicole shares the necessary changes she made to have a superannuation account that’s investing in ethical organisations, a share portfolio on a limited budget with investments in a range of growing sustainable businesses and a strategy for making her home more sustainable. And now you can too! Nicole Haddow is a Melbourne-based journalist and author of Smashed Avocado: How I Cracked the Property Market and You Can Too, which is currently being developed into a documentary series. She was the executive property writer for the Australian Financial Review.

Author : Matt Taibbi
Publisher : Random House
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780679645467

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The Divide by Matt Taibbi Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail. In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends—growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration—come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime—but it’s impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side. In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice—the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks; and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs. On the other side of the Divide, Taibbi takes us to the front lines of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep inside the stop-and-frisk world, where standing in front of your own home has become an arrestable offense. As he narrates these incredible stories, he draws out and analyzes their common source: a perverse new standard of justice, based on a radical, disturbing new vision of civil rights. Through astonishing—and enraging—accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide’s punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all. Praise for The Divide “Ambitious . . . deeply reported, highly compelling . . . impossible to put down.”—The New York Times Book Review “These are the stories that will keep you up at night. . . . The Divide is not just a report from the new America; it is advocacy journalism at its finest.”—Los Angeles Times “Taibbi is a relentless investigative reporter. He takes readers inside not only investment banks, hedge funds and the blood sport of short-sellers, but into the lives of the needy, minorities, street drifters and illegal immigrants. . . . The Divide is an important book. Its documentation is powerful and shocking.”—The Washington Post “Captivating . . . The Divide enshrines its author’s position as one of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism.”—The Independent (UK) “Taibbi [is] perhaps the greatest reporter on Wall Street’s crimes in the modern era.”—Salon

Author : E.A. Heaman,David Tough
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228002604

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Who Pays for Canada? by E.A. Heaman,David Tough Pdf

Canadians can never not argue about taxes. From the Chinese head tax to the Panama Papers, from the National Policy to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, tax grievances always inspire private resentments and public debates. But if resentment and debate persist, the terms of the debate have continually altered and adapted to reflect changing social, economic, and political conditions in Canada and the wider world. The centenary of income tax is the occasion for Canadian scholars to wrestle with past and present debates about tax equity, efficiency, and justice. Who Pays for Canada? explores the different ways governments can and should tax their peoples and evaluates how well Canada has done so. It brings together a diverse group of perspectives from academia - law, economics, political science, history, geography, philosophy, and accountancy - and from the wider world of activists and public servants. It asks how Canada compares to other countries and how other countries - especially the United States - influence Canadian tax policies. It also surveys internal tax tensions and politics, through the lenses of region and jurisdiction, as well as race, class, and gender. Reasoning from tax perplexities and reforms in the past and the present, it argues that fair taxation requires an informed populace and a democratically inclined public will. Above all, this book serves as a reminder that it is not only what counts as fair that is important, but how fairness is evaluated. Revealing how closely tax policy is tied to mainstream politics, human rights, and morality, Who Pays for Canada? represents new perspectives on a matter of tremendous national urgency.

Author : Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317250616

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Theory from the South by Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff Pdf

As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally associated with the 'Global South'. Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism. They consider how we might understand these issues by using theory developed in the Global South. Challenging our ideas about 'developed' and 'developing' nations, Theory from the South provides new insights into key problems of our time.

Author : Holcombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615410987

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You Should Only Have to Get Rich Once Rich by Holcombe Pdf

Author : Edgar Villanueva
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523097913

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Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva Pdf

Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides. Though it seems counterintuitive, the philanthropic industry has evolved to mirror colonial structures and reproduces hierarchy, ultimately doing more harm than good. After 14 years in philanthropy, Edgar Villanueva has seen past the field's glamorous, altruistic façade, and into its shadows: the old boy networks, the savior complexes, and the internalized oppression among the “house slaves,” and those select few people of color who gain access. All these funders reflect and perpetuate the same underlying dynamics that divide Us from Them and the haves from have-nots. In equal measure, he denounces the reproduction of systems of oppression while also advocating for an orientation towards justice to open the floodgates for a rising tide that lifts all boats. In the third and final section, Villanueva offers radical provocations to funders and outlines his Seven Steps for Healing. With great compassion—because the Native way is to bring the oppressor into the circle of healing—Villanueva is able to both diagnose the fatal flaws in philanthropy and provide thoughtful solutions to these systemic imbalances. Decolonizing Wealth is a timely and critical book that preaches for mutually assured liberation in which we are all inter-connected.

Author : Rhonda Byrne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780731815296

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The Secret by Rhonda Byrne Pdf

The tenth-anniversary edition of the book that changed lives in profound ways, now with a new foreword and afterword. In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe—The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller. Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life. The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers—men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

Author : Roy Christopher
Publisher : Roy Christopher
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Communication and culture
ISBN : 9780977697700

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Follow for Now by Roy Christopher Pdf

Book Description: Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes is an anthology of forty-three interviews with minds of all kinds. Spanning over seven years, Follow for Now includes interviews with such luminaries as Bruce Sterling, Douglas Rushkoff, DJ Spooky, Philip K. Dick, Aesop Rock, Erik Davis, Howard Bloom, David X. Cohen, Richard Saul Wurman, N. Katherine Hayles, Manuel De Landa, Rudy Rucker, Milemarker, Steve Aylett, Doug Stanhope, Paul Roberts, Shepard Fairey, Tod Swank, dalek, Eric Zimmerman, Steven Johnson, Mark Dery, Geert Lovink, Brenda Laurel, and many, many more. Follow for Now is an eclectic, independently-minded snapshot of the intellectual landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It also includes an extensive bibliography, a full index, and weighs in at nearly 400 pages.

Author : Craig Hanks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781405149006

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Technology and Values by Craig Hanks Pdf

This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to the present. It offers an in-depth range of readings on important applied issues in technology as well. Useful in addressing questions on philosophy, sociology, and theory of technology Includes wide-ranging coverage on metaphysics, ethics, and politics, as well as issues relating to gender, biotechnology, everyday artifacts, and architecture A good supplemental text for courses on moral or political problems in which contemporary technology is a unit of focus An accessible and thought-provoking book for beginning and advanced undergraduates; yet also a helpful resource for graduate students and academics