Top products from r/occupywallstreet
We found 26 product mentions on r/occupywallstreet. We ranked the 107 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.
2. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
Pantheon Books
3. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 2
4. Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
5. Negroes with Guns (African American Life Series)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
Used Book in Good Condition
6. Defence Technology First Defense 1.3% MK-9 Stream OC Aerosol
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
Miscellaneous Items
8. Why Globalization Works (Yale Nota Bene)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Yale University Press
9. Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
10. The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
11. The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
14. National Security and Double Government
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Oxford University Press USA
15. Down and Out in Paris and London
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Mariner Books
16. Pu Leather Cell Phone Anti-Tracking Anti-Spying GPS RFID Signal Blocker Pouch Case Bag Handset Function Bag (Black
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
High quality and perfect design, can be used as a wallet at the same timePrevent people from being tracked with this bag, protect your privacyIf you don't want to answer the phone,you can put the phone in the bag, then the phone will tell "Calls can not be connected."ID card, bank cards such as IC m...
17. Principles of Macroeconomics (10th Edition) (Pearson Series in Economics)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
18. Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
Peter Schweizer was a foreign policy advisor to Sarah Palin. He works with Andrew Breitbart and has authored several books with titles such as Makers and Takers: Why conservatives work harder, feel happier, have closer families, take fewer drugs, give more generously, value honesty more, are less materialistic.
But I don't bring this up to discredit the man. I think it's great to see a person of his character addressing such a pertinent issue like insider trading in Congress. The fact that it is him delivering this message encourages unity between conservatives and liberals so that we can more effectively confront the extensive corruption within our state and corporate systems.
Edit: This story was also covered well by Newsweek. Peter Schweizer's new book, on this topic and based on his independent research, is Throw Them All Out.
HOW did the CIVIL RIGHTS movement really HAPPEN .
MLK was great and he sure didn't do it by himself. There were plenty of civil rights leaders and methods and philosophies, and I don't blame you for not knowing. Who researches the truth of the 50s and 60s?
If they let them on TV and in school books, that does not necessarily make them the most important.
I've got to be honest, though I agree entirely with the theory presented in my previous post, I wasn't actually stating my own speculative opinion, I was (accurately) parroting the empirically based works of Chang. I think that if you read his book [Kicking Away The Ladder] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kicking-Away-Ladder-Institutions-Globalization/dp/1843310279), or for a more accessible work [Bad Samaritans] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Samaritans-Secrets-Nations-Prosperity/dp/1905211376) you would be hard pressed to disagree with his account of economic history.
Indeed, almost all predominant advocates of free trade begrudgingly accept Chang's view, but counter that such policies are no longer possible nowadays, given how globalized and intertwined the various national economies are. For an example of this kind of argument see Martin Wolf's [Why Globalization Works] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Globalization-Works-Yale-Nota-Bene/dp/0300107773).
I didn't really want to challenge your various retorts of my previous comment, because as I stated it's not my argument. But I would like to say that I think it is fair to describe your depiction of South Korea as inaccurate. Whilst true that Korea produce goods that are exported to other developed countries, this is no bad thing - all developed countries trade between each other, as it has been shown to be the most efficient way to produce things. Also, you imply that Korea has a particularly unequal society, but a cursory look at the national [gini-coefficient rankings] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality), which ranks countries by income equality, shows that Korea has a more equal society than Canada, France, Belgium, the UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, New Zealand, and a significantly greater level of equality than the United States.
What is the source of this statement? Apparently, it's Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich [Paperback]
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But, I wonder what Domhoff's source is.
Thank you for your response! I am glad at least one person read the link.
If you want to watch the documentary, here's a link. Its a bit old (1992), and Chomsky is sometime difficult to keep focused on with his style.
If you want to go all out, here is a link to the book on Amazon.
>I was earning my Econ. degree during the supply side "revolution".
You may find this interesting. The guy who developed Reaganomics (Bruce Bartlett) has recently written a book called:
"The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and A New Way Forward - I highly recommend reading that book!
To me, not many people have the intellectual honesty to go "Yeah, this policy that we implemented 30+ years ago - well that was a bad idea". And the fact that the guy who created Reaganomics is saying this has some weight in my perspective.
Be sure to read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."
Yep, check out the comments and user images, Hilarious.
Another great one is Down and Out in London and Paris by George Orwell. Its really a gripping story of just what is is like for those who live in poverty on a day to day basis.
This article needs to back up its sources. Or we should just read the book http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446 and scrutinize these details.
Otherwise please don't succumb to hyperbolic language and sites
If you would allow me... I would suggest first learning macroeconomics and the purpose of central banking.
(I recommend this but that's only because that's the book I first learned econ from. YMMV. )
Read Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by MIT professor Noam Chomsky and you will understand why OWS is being misrepresented in the media.
the marketing bible called 'Positioning' explains a lot about how this works. other things being equal, people will keep voting for senator smith the way they buy kleenex and zerox.
smith dies, they will gravitate to the closest substitute, in this case smith junior. there are other factors, but name recognition is the biggest one.
http://www.amazon.com/Positioning-The-Battle-Your-Mind/dp/0071373586
This is the actual page with the reviews.
Also, Chris Hayes' book "Twilight of the Elites"...
http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Elites-America-After-Meritocracy/dp/0307720454
this book i think:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Way-Rob-Bank-Own/dp/0292706383
the author has been a guest on his show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations
Or read this book
http://www.amazon.com/Antitrust-Law-Second-Richard-Posner/dp/0226675769
> This is ironic, because, to my understanding, Nietsche probably would have scorned Hitler and the Nazis (if only he were consciously able to do so).
http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Are-Not-Nietzscheans/dp/0226244814
He's the author of "Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It"
The civil rights movement in this country wouldn't have been successful with ONLY it either.
There was very real violence in the civil rights movement. MLK gets alot of face time because he is good PR ... but the Black Panthers, Race Riots, and other localized events of violence stirred the pot incredibly and made the PTB realize they had to really sit down and deal with this.
Do you think Martin Luther King didn't have armed security guards? The racists and those opposed to him did eventually shoot him down, but without protection (the threat of violence) , there are plenty of people who would have ended his life far earlier and you would have never heard a fraction of the speeches he used to inspire the masses.
It is easy to be non-violent, when there are those with large sticks behind you affording you that luxury.
The problem with the world is, there are way too many people that have been apathetic for too long about political corruption. It's start to demand change at every level of Government, which means kicking out all incumbants and anyone that was so much affiliated with anyone participating in any type of Fraud, Waste, or outright Abuse. Anytime anyone in government commits fraud, they should immediately be forced to resign, or should be voted out in the next election cycle.