Mark Orton, who used to live in Hudson (but now lives in Florida) and from 2009 to 2024 ran the Orton Davis Gallery at 114 Warren Street with his wife, Karen Davis, has written a book about the U.S. economy. The book is called The Heist: How the Rich & Corporations Stole the American Dream.
Here's what Orton says about his work:
After eight years of research and writing, my book, THE HEIST: how the rich and corporations stole the American dream, has been published.
The book tells the very important story of the changes in the US economy over the past fifty years that have produced today's tsunami of income and wealth inequality, with the accompanying broadening and intensification of insecurities for the bottom 90% of our population. It also reviews many other troubling features of the economy and how our society does and doesn't function with equity and sustainability.
THE HEIST is written to be accessible to everyone and is not overly long at 180 pages. It is fully referenced, so you can see the sources I used. It also includes appendices that provide an introduction to why orthodox economics is not useful, how to understand charts and graphs, getting you head around huge numbers like trillions, and more.
Somewhat ironically, the book is available in paperback and ebook formats on Amazon and in paperback at IngramSpark.
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