The great polarization : how ideas, power, and policies drive inequality /
"Inequality in income and wealth has increased dramatically in the United States and many other advanced countries since the mid-1970s. It permeates all aspects of our lives, and is front and center in public and academic debates. Our societies have become more polarized perhaps than any time s...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2022]
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| Edice: | Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia (Series)
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/arni19926 |
Obsah:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Introduction, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Rudiger L. von Arnim
- Part I. America's Growing Inequality
- 1. Alternative Theories of Inequality: Causes, Consequences, and Policies, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Part II. Recasting the Evidence in a New Light
- 2. Labor Market Segmentation and the Distribution of Income, by Ellis Scharfenaker and Markus Schneider
- 3. The Cost of Gender Inequality: Structural Change and the Labor Share of Income, by Stephanie Seguino and Elissa Braunstein
- 4. The Postwar Trajectory of the U.S. Labor Share: Structural Change and Secular Stagnation, by Jose Barrales-Ruiz, Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz, Codrina Rada, Ansel Schiavone, and Rudiger L. von Arnim
- 5. The Changing Patterns of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917-2017, by Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy
- Part III. Policy Matters: Labor Markets, Education, Tax, and Intellectual Property
- 6. Policy Decisions' Role in Wage Suppression and Inequality, by Lawrence Mishel
- 7. "Leave Something for the Risk-Takers:" How the Democrats Rebuilt Structural Racism and Hastened the Great Polarization, 1964-1978, by Julia Ott
- 8. Teachers' Unions and Public Education During the Great Polarization, by Eunice Han and Thomas N. Maloney
- 9. Is Intellectual Property the Root of All Evil? Patents, Copyrights, and Inequality, by Dean Baker
- Part IV. The Political Economy of Inequality: Political Context and the Way Forward
- 10. The Economic Discourse on Income Inequality, by Korkut A. Ertürk
- 11. Redistribution and Social Exclusion in the United States and Germany, by Marcel Paret and Michael Levien
- 12. A Race-Conscious Economic Rights Approach to Providing Economic Security for All, by Darrick Hamilton
- 13. Law and the Collective Struggle for Economic Justice, by Marion Crain
- Contributors
- Index.