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Titolo: Occupy the future [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David B. Grusky ... [et al.] Visualizza cluster
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  
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-299-05575-3
0-262-30607-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462567703321
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Serie: Boston review book.