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The trickle-up economy : how we take from the poor and middle class and give to the rich / Mark Mattern.
LIBRA HC110.I5 M36 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mattern, Mark, 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Income distribution--United States.
- Income distribution.
- United States.
- Supply-side economics--United States.
- Supply-side economics.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Economic history.
- Economic policy.
- Social policy.
- United States--Economic policy.
- United States--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 205 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Documents the everyday, institutionalized ways that income and wealth are transferred upward in the United States-how the bottom subsidizes the top"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Trickle-Down Economics: Myths and Fairy Tales
- 2. Wages and Benefits: No Fair Share for Workers
- 3. The Tax System: Class Struggle Laid Bare
- 4. Social Welfare: We're All on the Dole
- 5. Corporate Welfare: Aid for Dependent Corporations
- 6. The US Financial System: A Casino Economy
- 7. Racialized Redistribution: Affirmative Action for White People
- 8. Markets and Power: The Invisible Fist
- 9. Reversing the Flow: Toward a More Democratic Political Economy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781626379688
- 1626379688
- 9781626379701
- 162637970X
- OCLC:
- 1240491921
- Publisher Number:
- 99988364275
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