The Servant Economy, Jeff Faux
The Servant Economy, Jeff Faux
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The Servant Economy
Where America's Elite is Sending the Middle Class

Author: Jeff Faux

Narrator: Jim Seybert

Unabridged: 10 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2020

Synopsis

America's political and economic elite spent so long making such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue down the same road? The simple answer that no one in charge wants to publicly acknowledge is that things are still pretty great for the people who run America. It was an accident of history, Jeff Faux explains, that after World War II the U.S. could afford a prosperous middle class, a dominant military, and a booming economic elite at the same time. For the past three decades, all three have been competing, with the middle class always losing. Soon the military will decline as well. Faux's last book, The Global Class War, sold over 20,000 copies by correctly predicting the permanent decline of our debt-burdened middle class at the hands of our off-shoring executives, out-of-control financiers, and their friends in Washington. Since his last book, Faux is repeatedly asked what either party will do to face these mounting crises. After looking over actual policies, proposed plans, non-partisan reports, and think-tank papers, his astonishing conclusion is that they’ll just do more of the same.

About Jim Seybert

Jim Seybert has been narrating stories for nearly sixty years. He anchored radio news broadcasts from 1974 through 1992, led marketing for a nationwide group of independent bookstores, and is the PA announcer for a Collegiate League baseball team. In addition to narrating, he has published two books on leadership. He and his wife make their home in Arroyo Grande, California.

About Jeff Faux

Jeff Faux is the principal founder of the Economic Policy Institute and was its first president from 1986 to 2002. He is now the Institute's Distinguished Fellow and also serves on its board of directors. He was educated at Queens College, George Washington University, and Harvard University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Caren on August 03, 2012

If you are trying to avoid depressing fare, then don't open this book because it is not an optimistic read. On the other hand, if you want to walk into the future "eyes wide-open", brace yourself and plunge in. The author, founder of the Economic Policy Institute, makes his case relentlessly. He set......more

Goodreads review by George on April 05, 2013

Very thought provoking. Tells it true and like it is. The US is well on the way to 2nd world country status. With third world status waiting just around the corner. Life is already cheap. The vast majority of our population is sliding to poverty and servant status. We are back to dog-eat-dog competi......more

Goodreads review by Randy on August 13, 2020

I wish that I'd read earlier.......more

Goodreads review by Ken on October 04, 2020

Two takeaways in Jeff Faux's excellent book on the economy. First, it covers the history of governmental policy making since FDR and its impact on the middle class and how it created a governing class of wealthy individuals and institutions. This governing class is now firmly in control of our lives......more

Goodreads review by Lubo on July 19, 2016

A very revealing summary of Reganomics and the current political and economic situation in the US. It further exposes the true goals of the Republican party, but not without throwing dirt in the faces of Democrats either -- something I've always wanted to see in a book on the subject. Quite pessimis......more

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