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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其他作者: Von Arnim, Rudiger, 1976- (Editor), Stiglitz, Joseph E. (Editor)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
叢編:Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia (Series)
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/arni19926
書本目錄:
  • 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.