Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking Our Common Inheritance by Gar Alperovitz
Warren Buffett is worth nearly GBP50 billion. Does he deserve' all this money? Unjust Deserts offers an entirely new approach to the wealth question. In a lively synthesis of modern economic, technological and cultural research, Alperovitz and Daly demonstrate that up to 90% of the current economic output derives not from individual ingenuity but from our collective inheritance of scientific and technological knowledge.'