The wealth divide / Noel Merino, book editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Merino, Noel, editor.

Series:

At issue. Economy.

At issue The wealth divide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--United States.

Income distribution.

Rich people--United States.

Rich people.

Poor--United States.

Poor.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 pages).

Place of Publication:

Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780737776607

0737776609

OCLC:

930684648