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题名/责任者:

Billionaire wilderness : the ultra-wealthy and the remaking of the American West / Justin Farrell.

出版发行项:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]

ISBN:

9780691176673

载体形态项:

xii, 376 pages ; 25 cm.

其他载体形态:

Online version: Farrell, Justin, 1983- Billionaire wilderness Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020] 9780691185811

丛编说明:

Princeton studies in cultural sociology

个人责任者:

Farrell, Justin, 1983- author.

论题主题:

West (U.S.)-Environmental conditions.

论题主题:

West (U.S.)-Economic conditions.

论题主题:

Billionaires-Political activity-West (U.S.)

论题主题:

Billionaires-West (U.S.)-Social life and customs.

论题主题:

Social conflict-West (U.S.)

论题主题:

Environmental ethics-West (U.S.)

论题主题:

Environmental policy-West (U.S.)

中图法分类号:

F171.27

中图法分类号:

X-017.12

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

Introduction: setting off into the wilderness -- Part I. How we got here and what it feels like -- New nation of the ultra-wealthy -- Mount billionaire -- Part II. Using nature to solve economic dilemmas -- Compensation conservation -- Connoisseur conservation -- Gilded green philanthropy -- Moneyfest destiny -- Part III. Using rural people to solve social dilemmas -- Becoming rural poor, naturally -- Guilt numbed -- Part IV. Ultra-wealth through the eyes of the working poor -- No time for judgment -- Cracking the veneer -- Epilogue: the future of wealth and the west.

摘要附注:

"Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming-both the richest county in the United States and the county with the nation's highest level of income inequality-to investigate interconnected questions about money, nature, and community in the twenty-first century. Farrell draws on three years of in-depth interviews with "ordinary" millionaires and the world's wealthiest billionaires, four years of in-person observation in the community, and original quantitative data to provide comprehensive and unique analytical insight on the ultra-wealthy. He also interviewed low-income workers who could speak to their experiences as employees for and members of the community with these wealthy people. He finds that the wealthy leverage nature to climb even higher on the socioeconomic ladder, and they use their engagement with nature and rural people as a way of creating more virtuous and deserving versions of themselves. Billionaire Wilderness demonstrates that our contemporary understanding of the relationship between the ultra-wealthy and the environment is empirically shallow, and our reliance on reports of national economic trends distances us from the real experiences of these people and their local communities"--

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