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Titolo: |
The wealth divide / / Noel Merino, book editor
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Pubblicazione: | Farmington Hills, Mich. : , : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, , [2015] |
�2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (103 pages) |
Disciplina: | 339.2/20973 |
Soggetto topico: | Income distribution - United States |
Rich people - United States | |
Poor - United States | |
Equality - United States | |
Persona (resp. second.): | MerinoNoel |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. The wealth divide between rich and poor harms the US economy / Jonathan Rauch -- 2. A cell phone in every pot / Aparna Mathur -- 3. Income inequality causes serious social ills and should be reduced / Thomas L. Hungerford -- 4. Income inequality is not unfair and does not need to be eliminated / Arthur C. Brooks -- 5. A house divided / Thomas J. Sugrue -- 6. Disparities in achievement along racial and ethnic lines are the norm / Thomas Sowell -- 7. Race, wealth, and intergenerational poverty / Darrick Hamilton -- 8. How to fix America's wealth inequality: teach Americans to be cheap / Noah Smith -- 9. Reflections on inequality / Robert A. Levy -- 10. To reduce inequality, we should help the poor not tax the rich / James Q. Wilson -- 11. Americans want less wealth inequality than currently exists / Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely -- 12. That Americans want less wealth inequality is irrelevant / Max Borders -- 13. The unequal wealth created by the rich is essential for the economy / Richard A. Epstein. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Provides a wide range of opinions on a specific social issue. Offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more-to illuminate the issue. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations point to sources for further research. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The wealth divide ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-7377-7660-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910162720903321 |
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