Are They Rich Because They're Smart?: Class, Privilege and Learning Under Capitalism

Synopsis

'are They Rich Because They're Smart' Explains The Sharpening Class Inequalities In The United States And The Resulting Conflicts Accelerated By Today's Slow-burning World Depression. It Takes Apart The Self-serving Rationalizations Of A Growing Layer Of Well-paid Professionals That Their Schooling And 'brightness' Equip Them To 'regulate' The Lives Of Working People, Who Can't Be Trusted To Know What's In Our Own Interests.-- Are They Rich Because They're Smart? The Rationalization Of Class Privilege -- Growing Class Stratification And The 'enlightened Meritocracy' -- Capitalism, The Working Class, And The Transformation Of Learning. Jack Barnes. Includes Index.