Name: City of Quartz
ISBN: 9780679738060

Mike Davis

The hidden story of L.A. Mike davis shows us where the city's money comes form and who controls it while also exposing the brutal ongoing struggle between L.A.'s haves and have-nots.

Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

City of Quartz

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In particular, the deafening public ilence about youth unemployment and the juvenation of poverty has left many thousands of young street people with little alter- native but to enlist in the crypto-Keynesian youth employment program operated by the cocaine cartels. 

Bullock observed that the last rational option open to Watts youth at least in the neoclassical sense of utility-maximizing economic behavior- was to sell drugs.

Peddling the imported high profit rock stuff to a bipolar market of financial consumers, including rich Westsiders, as well as poor street people, the Crips have become as much lumpen capitalist as outlaw proletarians.

City of Quartz Excavating the Future in Los Angeles