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Occupy the future / edited by David B. Grusky, Doug McAdam, Rob Reich and Debra Satz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Boston review book.
- Boston review books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Income distribution--United States.
- Income distribution.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Poverty--United States.
- Poverty.
- United States--Economic conditions--2009-.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30515-1
- 1-299-05575-3
- 0-262-30607-7
- OCLC:
- 827004178
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