Billionaire Wilderness : The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West /

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How rich people use nature to enhance their status, find rural salvation, and resolve the complex predicaments in their livesBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farrell, Justin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 83
Temas:
Billionaires > Political activity > West (U.S.)
Billionaires > West (U.S.) > Social life and customs.
Billionaires > West (U.S.).
Environmental ethics > West (U.S.)
Environmental policy > West (U.S.)
Income distribution > West (U.S.).
Social conflict > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > Economic conditions.
West (U.S.) > Environmental conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
1 percent.
1 percenters.
American West.
David Naguib Pellow.
Lisa Sun-Hee Park.
The Slums of Aspen.
affluenza.
discrimination.
environmental issues.
environmental justice.
environmental sustainability.
environmentalism.
eviction.
gentrification.
income gap.
income inequality.
land conservation.
low-wage labor.
one percent.
one percenters.
rural America.
rural poor.
social stratification.
undocumented immigration.
wealth concentration.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Setting Off into the Wilderness
  • PART I. HOW WE GOT HERE AND WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
  • 1. New Nation of the Ultra-Wealthy
  • 2. Mount Billionaire
  • PART II. USING NATURE TO SOLVE ECONOMIC DILEMMAS
  • Introduction
  • 3. Compensation Conservation
  • 4. Connoisseur Conservation
  • 5. Gilded Green Philanthropy
  • 6. Moneyfest Destiny
  • PART III. USING RURAL PEOPLE TO SOLVE SOCIAL DILEMMAS
  • Introduction
  • 7. Becoming Rural Poor, Naturally
  • 8. Guilt Numbed
  • PART IV. ULTRA-WEALTH THROUGH THE EYES OF THE WORKING POOR
  • Introduction
  • 9. No Time for Judgment
  • 10. Cracking the Veneer
  • Epilogue: The Future of Wealth and the West
  • Appendix: Methodological Notes
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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