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Titolo |
Occupy the future / / edited by David B. Grusky, Doug McAdam, Rob Reich and Debra Satz |
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Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, ©2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-30515-1 |
1-299-05575-3 |
0-262-30607-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Income distribution - United States |
Equality - United States |
Poverty - United States |
United States Economic conditions 2009- |
United States Social conditions 21st century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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