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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
By (Author) Joel Kotkin
Encounter Books,USA
Encounter Books,USA
18th April 2023
United States
General
Non Fiction
305.512
Paperback
296
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 15mm
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in Ameri
The social and economic divide which Kotkin has identified is certainly real, and very easy for those who have spent all their time on one side to overlook.Kotkins warning in this timely, compelling, and well-written book should be heeded.
Quillette
Kotkin rightfully places his finger on a phalanx of attitudes, beliefs, and practices of our recently ascendant economic elite and their apologists and allies in the symbol-mongering institutions.
Richard M. Reinsch,Law & Liberty
Among the books that could end up defining the times in which we find ourselves here in the United States and throughout the worldfrom South America to Italy to the South China SeaKotkins work is not as widely read and discussed. But it ought to be.
John Loftus,National Review
The alarm Kotkin sounds is all the more courageous and credible coming from an old-school progressive like him, and shows that the lefts realignment around the interests of tech oligarchs and the gospel of wokeism wont go without internal pushback.
The American Conservative
Kotkin marshals a host of arresting economic data to demonstrate the widening gulf between the feudal lords and everyone else.
The Russell Kirk Center
A triumph.
Front Porch Republic
Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and Executive Director of the Houston-based Urban Reform Institute. He is Senior Fellow for Heartland Forward and Executive Editor of the widely read website NewGeography.com. He is a regular contributor to City Journal, Daily Beast, Quillette and Real Clear Politics. As director of the Center for Demographics and Policy at Chapman, he was the lead author of a major study on housing, and recently, with Marshall Toplansky, published a strategic analysis for Orange County, CA.
Kotkin is the author of eight previous books, including The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us and the highly praised The New Class Conflict. He co-edited the 2018 collection Infinite Suburbia. Kotkins books The City: A Global History and Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Are Reshaping the Global Economy, were published in numerous languages including Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German and Arabic. Kotkin has published reports on topics ranging from the future of class in global cities to the places with the best opportunities for minorities.
Kotkin has conducted major studies on demography and urbanism in East Asia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and many cities in the United States.