Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet

Recently, it has become increasingly evident that extreme concentrations of wealth and power have profound impacts on our politics, but extreme inequality's influence on our daily lives-and our futures-has been vastly overlooked.

InBurned by Billionaires, Chuck Collins, an author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, chronicles how the actions of the top .01% have severe consequences for the rest of us.Collins takes down the "myth of meritocracy," unravel...