{"product_id":"the-heist-how-the-rich-corporations-stole-the-american-dream-paperback","title":"The Heist: How the Rich \u0026 Corporations Stole the American Dream - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark M. Orton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the last fifty years, the American economy has been transformed-and not by accident. Since the mid-1970s, a coordinated project by corporate leaders, wealthy elites, lobbyists, and policy intellectuals has quietly rewritten the rules of the U.S. economy. The result: more than $79 trillion has been shifted upward from the bottom 90% to the richest households, wages have stagnated despite decades of rising productivity, and entire communities have been left precarious, indebted, and insecure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Heist\u003c\/strong\u003e tells the story of how this happened-and what it has done to the people who were left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on economic research, historical evidence, and clear, accessible analysis, Mark M. Orton shows how financialization, monopolization, deregulation, tax policy, weakened labor power, and deliberate political capture combined to redirect the gains of growth to a small elite. From the Powell Memo to the rise of private equity, from stock buybacks to the collapse of antitrust enforcement, Orton traces the mechanisms of upward redistribution in vivid, concrete detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar from inevitability, this new economic order was engineered-step by step, policy by policy, deal by deal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Heist\u003c\/strong\u003e explains how: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCEOs and financial firms extracted value through buybacks, LBOs, and debt-fueled predation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCorporations rewrote tax policy to shield trillions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe decline of unions and worker bargaining power hollowed out the middle class\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonopolies in tech, finance, retail, energy, and healthcare reshaped markets and prices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitical influence, dark money, and lobbying blocked reform and entrenched inequality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrdinary Americans absorbed the risks-precarity, debt, insecurity, and declining prospects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eClear-eyed, urgent, and deeply researched, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Heist \u003c\/strong\u003eexposes the mechanisms behind America's inequality crisis-and shows why reclaiming shared prosperity requires rebuilding the rules of the economy itself. For readers of Joseph Stiglitz, Rana Foroohar, Robert Reich, Thomas Piketty, and Matthew Desmond, this is an essential guide to the real story of how the American Dream was taken-and how it can be restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51894609019168,"sku":"9798993815503","price":14.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/NoYjfd-h69798993815503.webp?v=1782022947","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-heist-how-the-rich-corporations-stole-the-american-dream-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}