Occupy the future [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David B. Grusky ... [et al.]
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| Titolo: |
Occupy the future [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David B. Grusky ... [et al.]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 339.20973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Income distribution - United States |
| Equality - United States | |
| Poverty - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Economic conditions 2009- |
| United States Social conditions 1980-2020 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
GruskyDavid B
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Occupy the future |
| ISBN: | 1-299-05575-3 |
| 0-262-30607-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462567703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Boston review book.