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Control # 1 2019053009
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20230208140003.0
Fixed Data 8 200210s2020 nju b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2019053009
ISBN 20    $a9780691176673$q(hardback)
ISBN 20    $z9780691185811$q(ebook)
Obsolete 39    $a325604$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $an-usp--
LC Call 50 00 $aHC107.A17$bF37 2020
Dewey Class 82 00 $a333.720978$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aFarrell, Justin,$d1983-$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aBillionaire wilderness :$bthe ultra-wealthy and the remaking of the American West /$cJustin Farrell.
Tag 264 264  1 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2020]
Phys Descrpt 300    $axii, 376 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Series:Diff 490 $aPrinceton studies in cultural sociology
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 357-367) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aIntroduction: 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.
Abstract 520    $a"Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming-both the richest county in the United States and the county with the nation's highest level of income inequality-to investigate interconnected questions about money, nature, and community in the twenty-first century. Farrell draws on three years of in-depth interviews with "ordinary" millionaires and the world's wealthiest billionaires, four years of in-person observation in the community, and original quantitative data to provide comprehensive and unique analytical insight on the ultra-wealthy. He also interviewed low-income workers who could speak to their experiences as employees for and members of the community with these wealthy people. He finds that the wealthy leverage nature to climb even higher on the socioeconomic ladder, and they use their engagement with nature and rural people as a way of creating more virtuous and deserving versions of themselves. Billionaire Wilderness demonstrates that our contemporary understanding of the relationship between the ultra-wealthy and the environment is empirically shallow, and our reliance on reports of national economic trends distances us from the real experiences of these people and their local communities."--$cProvided by publisher.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWest (U.S.)$xEnvironmental conditions.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWest (U.S.)$xEconomic conditions.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aBillionaires$xPolitical activity$zWest (U.S.)
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aBillionaires$zWest (U.S.)$xSocial life and customs.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSocial conflict$zWest (U.S.)
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aEnvironmental ethics$zWest (U.S.)
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aEnvironmental policy$zWest (U.S.)
SE:Ufm Title 830  0 $aPrinceton studies in cultural sociology.