The mechanisms by which globalization works to favor the rich is laid out well by economist Dean Baker in his book Rigged. The introduction looks at how trade i

The mechanisms by which globalization works to favor the rich is laid out well by economist Dean Baker in his book Rigged. The introduction looks at how trade imbalances with the global south benefit the rich in the west. The third chapter examines the macroeconomics of upwards redistribution itself. The entire book is available free on his website: https://deanbaker.net/images/stories/documents/Rigged.pdf https://deanbaker.net/images/stories/documents/Rigged.pdf In terms of US policy, the state of American inequality, and the domestic movement of corporate interests to create policies to favor the rich - the book Winner Take All Politics is a concise overview of this history since the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner-Take-All_Politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner-Take-All_Politics