The inequality trap : fighting capitalism instead of poverty /

"US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the "defining issue of our time." It has inspired the "Occupy" movements, made a French economist into a global celebrity, and given us a new expression--the "one percent." But is our preoccupation with ineq...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, William G (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press 2015.
Series:UTP insights.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctvg252wb
Table of Contents:
  • 1. History: The Sequel
  • 2. The Deserving Rich
  • 3. Ginis Rising
  • 4. Who Are the 1 Per Cent?
  • 5. Is Good Inequality Bad, Too?
  • 6. Poverty
  • 7. Opportunity
  • 8. Anti-Occupy.