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It Could Happen Here: America on the Brink Hardcover – October 6, 2009

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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Harper; 1 edition (October 6, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0061689106
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061689109
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #951,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsI found Judson's books so stimulating and important that I wrote a post based on it at my blog, here's what i said:
By Glen Pizzolorusso on October 6, 2009
Format: Kindle Edition
[...]
Glens True Story Blog: The lie that is Capitalism

I think it's important to establish first that I am a Conservative Christian Republican although some of my views here are contrary to my party's ideology. I do although support true capitalism, but true capitalism in America does not exist and we need to take drastic measures to realign the country with the dream our founding fathers had.

I grew up with a great respect for free markets and this notion of Laissez-Faire economics. I was a product of Corporate America and truly believed that we are the America we are because of these principles. Oh how sadly I have been misled. First lets address the context to which Adam Smith described "the invisible hand" and Laissez-Faire Economics. If you do not know the term Laissez-Faire its literal translation is "let the business alone," a philosophy that free markets will always regulate themselves. While this is a brilliant concept it has been grossly distorted through the eyes of Corporate America. Regan's trickle down economics started a landslide of Corporate Power and I would have to argue that Corporate America has become a Monarch, reigning over all the power and all the money, making it harder and harder for middle class Americans to voice their hopes and dreams.

When Smith coined this concept it was in direct relationship to local business, that a localized community would regulate supply and demand. Unfortunately it has been the catalyst of income concentration to a minute percentage of the US population, and many middle class Americans do not understand the concepts they so rigidly fight to uphold, myself formally one of them. Bruce Judson does a phenomenal job at walking you through history in his book titled "It can happen here, America on the Brink.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Dirty Bomb Coming to a City Near You
By Sam Pizzigati on October 20, 2009
Format: Hardcover
Last week's headlines about Wall Street's latest bonus windfalls once again raise a question most basic: How much greed at the top before America says enough? How much more before some Americans, incensed by the contrast between that greed and their daily struggle to get by, take matters -- rashly -- into their own hands?

Might we see, someday soon, unemployed nuclear engineers threatening America with radioactive dirty bombs? Might we experience a home-grown "terrorist act" that ends up collapsing the United States we we know it?

Bruce Judson thinks we might -- and we would be wise to listen to his warning.

"History teaches that there are limits to the extent of acceptable economic inequality in any society," this senior faculty fellow at Yale University's business school writes in his chilling new book, It Could Happen Here. "We have moved beyond these limits."

Judson's slim new volume imagines what might happen if a small group of Americans - infuriated by the demise of the American dream -- decided "to use extreme and abhorrent methods to voice its rage." This gripping and plausible foray into futuristic fiction then segues into a well-argued, totally nonfiction brief against present-day America's extreme -- and growing -- inequality.

The brief reads well. A lawyer by training and an entrepreneur by career, Judson knows first-hand how big money gets made in America today. The super rich do not awe him. But their impact does scare him.

America's intense concentration of wealth and income over the last three decades, Judson explains, has undermined our middle class economic security. Some eight to ten million families, he notes, now face foreclosure.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 stars2 out of 3 ain't bad
By C. P. Anderson on January 24, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Judson tries to do three things in this book:

- Show how unequal the US has become economically
- Show how things got that way
- Show how this will all result in civil unrest, even revolution

For the first two, he's right on the money. In fact, I've never seen anyone make such well-reasoned and well-delivered arguments along these lines, especially in so short a space. As for inequality, he cites damning evidence such as:

- The top 1% of US households receive 23% of the income. This compares to 30 years ago, when it was 10%, and is comparable to the time right before the Great Depression, when it was 24%.
- Median real income increased only 13% in the last 30 years. For the top 0.1%, however, it increased 235%.
- The wealth of the top 1% of households is greater than that of the bottom 90%.
- Economic mobility is less in the US than in any other OECD country.
- The average CEO makes 270 times what the average non-managerial worker in their company makes. 30 years ago, it was just 40.

As for causes, Judson points mainly to the Reagan Revolution, which was really just a reinstitution of 19th Century laissez-faire economics. He actually touches on a number of factors, though, and is able to tie them together in a very nice way.

When it comes to the revolution in the making, however, the book really falls down. Most of his arguments aren't supported nearly as well. There's very little data and lots of stringing together of suppositions. He also resorts to quoting authorities (including Aristotle and Lou Dobbs). Finally, the connections he makes to previous American crises (basically, the Revolution, Civil War, and Great Depression) and a handful of other revolutions elsewhere are all rather tenuous.Read more ›
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