Billionaire Wilderness (eBook)

The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
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2020
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18581-1 (ISBN)

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Billionaire Wilderness -  Justin Farrell
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A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Justin Farrell spent five years in Teton County, Wyoming, the richest county in the United States, and a community where income inequality is the worst in the nation. He conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews, gaining unprecedented access to tech CEOs, Wall Street financiers, oil magnates, and other prominent figures in business and politics. He also talked with the rural poor who live among the ultra-wealthy and often work for them. The result is a penetrating account of the far-reaching consequences of the massive accrual of wealth, and an eye-opening and sometimes troubling portrait of a changing American West where romanticizing rural poverty and conserving nature can be lucrative-socially as well as financially.Weaving unforgettable storytelling with thought-provoking analysis, Billionaire Wilderness reveals how the ultra-wealthy are buying up the land and leveraging one of the most pristine ecosystems in the world to climb even higher on the socioeconomic ladder. The affluent of Teton County are people burdened by stigmas, guilt, and status anxiety-and they appropriate nature and rural people to create more virtuous and deserving versions of themselves. Incisive and compelling, Billionaire Wilderness reveals the hidden connections between wealth concentration and the environment, two of the most pressing and contentious issues of our time.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.3.2020
Reihe/Serie Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
Zusatzinfo 23 b/w illus. 2 tables.
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte 1 percent • 1 percenters • academic degree • activism • Adobe • Affluenza • Affordable Housing • Airplane • Altruism • amenity • americans • American upper class • American West • anecdotal evidence • Ann Swidler • anonymity • another woman • antipathy • Anxiety • At Best • awareness • Bachelor's degree or higher • band-aid • barriers to entry • Behavioural Sciences • Ben Affleck • Bernard Madoff • bike path • Bill Bishop (author) • billionaire • Bourgeoisie • Bowling alone • Capitalism • Carbon Footprint • Career • Caricature • Case study • cashier • Charles Tilly • Civil penalty • Clothing • Commerce • Commercialization • community leader • Community Organizing • Competition • Conservation easement • conservation movement • Consideration • conspicuous consumption • construction worker • consumer choice • contentment • contexts • corporate tax • Cost of living • Criticism • Culpability • Cultural Capital • Culture of Germany • C. Wright Mills • David Naguib Pellow • day care • Discrimination • distrust • Downshifting • Each Way • Easement • Ecology • Economic Inequality • Economic Power • Economics • Economic statistics • ecosystem • Elite Status • elitism • Empathy • Employment • employment discrimination • entitlement • Environmentalism • Environmental issue • Environmental Issues • Environmentalist • environmental justice • environmental organization • environmental protection • Environmental Sociology • Environmental sustainability • Eric Klinenberg • Erin Brockovich • ethical code • ethnography • eviction • false consciousness • financialization • Financial Services • financier • Finding • Foie Gras • Food • food bank • freedom of speech • Funding • Fundraising • Gang • Generosity • Gentrification • Georg Simmel • Gilded Age • Good and evil • good faith • Great Guy • Great Recession • grocery store • Hedge Fund • High Culture • Hiking • His Family • hostility • Household • Human Capital • Humanitarian aid • hypocrisy • Ideology • Illegal Immigration • Immigration • income • income gap • income inequality • Income Tax • Income tax in the United States • ingredient • Insider • Institution • Internal Revenue Service (Ghana) • Investment • Jealousy • John D. Rockefeller Jr. • Juliet Schor • Laissez-faire • Land Conservation • Latin America • Lisa Sun-Hee Park • Literary criticism • living wage • Local community • low-wage labor • Lunch • Mainstream • Make a Difference • Marxian economics • middle class • minority group • Modernization Theory • month • Morality • mountain pass • narrative • Natural Environment • natural resource • Net Worth • Nonprofit Organization • One percent • One Percenters • Opportunism • organization • Our Community • Out in Front • participant observation • Pecking Order • personal experience • personal fulfillment • philanthropy • Pierre Bourdieu • Play (activity) • Politician • Politics • Pooling (resource management) • Population Growth • Poverty • Print Culture • private foundation • Private foundation (United States) • Profession • Property rights (economics) • Protest • Racism • Real estate appraisal • real estate broker • Real Estate Development • real number • Recompense • Recreation • resentment • Respondent • Restaurant • Robert D. Putnam • Rural America • rural poor • Rural Poverty • salary • saving • Scarcity • Scarcity (social psychology) • self-fulfillment • Self-Interest • Setback (architecture) • shortage • Small Business • Small Pond (Innsbruck) • Snob • Social Class • Social dilemma • Social Group • Social Inequality • social issue • Social Nature • Social Science • Social Status • social stigma • Social Stratification • Society • Sociology • tablecloth • Tax • tax haven • tax revenue • Tax shelter • Teton County, Wyoming • Their Lives • The Lonely Crowd • The Nature Conservancy • The Slums of Aspen • The Various • Thorstein Veblen • Tourism • traffic congestion • trickle-down economics • undocumented immigration • Unintended Consequences • Upper Class • Volunteering • Wealth • wealth concentration • Who Rules America? • Wildlife corridor • Workforce • Working Class • Working Poor • year
ISBN-10 0-691-18581-6 / 0691185816
ISBN-13 978-0-691-18581-1 / 9780691185811
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