04042nam 22008415 450 991077942900332120230207231808.00-300-14767-81-299-15997-410.12987/9780300147674(CKB)2550000001001345(EBL)3421137(SSID)ssj0000822562(PQKBManifestationID)12363541(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822562(PQKBWorkID)10757314(PQKB)10164739(DE-B1597)485282(OCoLC)842962036(DE-B1597)9780300147674(MiAaPQ)EBC3421137(EXLCZ)99255000000100134520200424h20082008 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Stakeholder Society /Anne Alstott, Bruce AckermanNew Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]©20081 online resource (311 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-300-07826-9 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Your Stake in America -- 2. Citizen Stakeholding -- 3. The Stake in Context -- 4. Profiles in Freedom -- 5. Payback Time -- 6. Taxing Wealth -- 7. The Limits of Growth-and Other Objections -- 8. From Worker to Citizen -- 9. Taxing Privilege -- 10. Ideals -- 11. Alternatives -- Appendix: Funding the Stakeholder Society -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexA quarter century of trickle-down economics has failed. Economic inequality in the United States has dramatically increased. Many, alas, seem resigned to this growing chasm between rich and poor. But what would happen, ask Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, if America were to make good on its promise of equal opportunity by granting every qualifying young adult a citizen's stake of eighty thousand dollars? Ackerman and Alstott argue that every American citizen has the right to share in the wealth accumulated by preceding generations. The distribution of wealth is currently so skewed that the stakeholding fund could be financed by an annual tax of two percent on the property owned by the richest forty percent of Americans.Ackerman and Alstott analyze their initiative from moral, political, economic, legal, and human perspectives. By summoning the political will to initiate stakeholding, they argue, we can achieve a society that is more democratic, productive, and free. Their simple but realistic plan would enhance each young adultís real ability to shape his or her own future. It is, in short, an idea that should be taken seriously by anyone concerned with citizenship, welfare dependency, or social justice in America today.Income distributionSocial justiceTax incidenceTaxationWealthWelfare economicsIncome distributionSocial justiceWelfare economicsTaxationTax incidenceWealthBusiness & EconomicsHILCCEconomic TheoryHILCCIncome distribution.Social justice.Tax incidence.Taxation.Wealth.Welfare economics.Income distributionSocial justiceWelfare economicsTaxationTax incidenceWealthBusiness & EconomicsEconomic Theory658.4/08Ackerman Bruce, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut522696Alstott Anne, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910779429003321The Stakeholder Society3772695UNINA