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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462567703321

Titolo

Occupy the future [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David B. Grusky ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2013

ISBN

1-299-05575-3

0-262-30607-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

A Boston review book

Altri autori (Persone)

GruskyDavid B

Disciplina

339.20973

Soggetti

Income distribution - United States

Equality - United States

Poverty - United States

Electronic books.

United States Economic conditions 2009-

United States Social conditions 1980-2020

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Part I. Introduction; Occupy the Future; Part II. The Empirical and Normative Foundation; Economic Inequality in the United States: An Occupy-Inspired Primer; How Much Inequality Is There?; Trends In Inequality; Cross-National Comparisons; The Sources of Inequality; Conclusions; Ethics and Inequality; Part III. The Sources of the Takeoff; Increasing Income Inequality: Economics and Institutional Ethics; Why Is There So Much Poverty?; Part IV. Who Bears the Brunt of the Takeoff?; Education and Inequality; The Double Binds of Economic and Racial Inequality

Gender and Economic InequalityPart V. Inequality, Politics, and Democracy; Restarting History; Political Remedies to Economic Inequality; State Millionaire Taxes; Inequality and Its Discontents; Fifty States: Room for Reform; No Flight of the Millionaires; Top One Percent Taxes and Sound State Fiscal Policy; The Politics of Occupy: Now and Looking Ahead; Part VI. The Social Costs of Inequality; Capitalism Versus the Environment; The Rising Toll of Inequality on Health Care and Health Status; Part VII. Inequality and Culture; Occupy Your



Imagination; What if We Occupied Language?; Thinking Big

About the ContributorsNotes; Boston Review Books

Sommario/riassunto

"How the Occupy movement has challenged the gap between American principles and American practice--and how we can realize our most cherished ideals."--Provided by publisher.