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Everything is broken up and dances : the crushing of the middle class

Title: Everything is broken up and dances : the crushing of the middle class / Guido Maria Brera, Edoardo Nesi ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.
Author: Brera, Guido Maria
Publication: New York : Other Press, [2017]

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Description

197 pages; 20 cm

Summary

"This extended autobiographical essay explains in clear, engaging terms how the role of economics and finance in the Western world has shifted in the twenty-first century, from cultivating wellbeing in society to eroding the wealth of the middle class. Just a handful of years into the new millennium, globalization has had a profound impact on economies and societies throughout Europe and America. In this accessible yet literary work, Edoardo Nesi and Guido Maria Brera illustrate its effects in Italy through the changes that occurred in their own lives: while the former was forced to sell the textile company his grandfather founded before World War II, the latter became one of the key figures in European asset management. Between Bill Clinton's remarks at the Lincoln Memorial on December 31, 1999 that closed the American Century, and Donald Trump's inauguration speech, economics and finance stopped functioning as instruments constructing a healthy society and became weapons to destroy the middle class. As demagogues seduce citizens of nations across the globe, Everything Is Broken Up and Dances tells the critical story of how we corrupted what we might in retrospect call "the best of all possible worlds"--A world without banking crises, unemployment, terrorism, and populism, in which it was impossible to think that a state might default on its debt"--
"Just a handful of years into the new millennium, globalization has had a profound impact on economies and societies throughout Europe and America. In this accessible yet literary work, Edoardo Nesi and Guido Maria Brera illustrate its effects in Italy through the changes that occurred in their own lives: while the former was forced to sell the textile company his grandfather founded before World War II, the latter became one of the key figures in European asset management"--

Uniform Title

Tutto è in frantumi e danza. English

Alternative Title

Tutto è in frantumi e danza.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Originally published in Italian as Tutto e in frantumi e danze in 2017 by La nave di Teseo, Milan.

Contents

Rise and fall of the best of all possible worlds -- The ice age -- 2016.

Call Number

JFC 18-459

ISBN

9781590519318
1590519310

LCCN

2017042772

OCLC

992970234

Author

Brera, Guido Maria, author.

Title

Everything is broken up and dances : the crushing of the middle class / Guido Maria Brera, Edoardo Nesi ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

Publisher

New York : Other Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Nesi, Edoardo, 1964- author.

Shugaar, Antony, translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Brera, Guido Maria. Everything is broken up and dances. New York : Other Press, 2018 9781590519325 (DLC) 2017056723

Research Call Number

JFC 18-459

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