Great Divergence America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

Name: Great Divergence America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
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ISBN: 9781608196357

ISBN-10: 1608196356

ISBN-13: 9781608196357

Edition: 2013

Authors: Timothy Noah

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For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly drastically unequal: the top 1% of Americans collect almost 20% of the nation's income-more than double their share in 1973. We have less equality of income than Venezuela, Kenya, or Yemen.What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has until now been treated as little more than a talking point, a club to be wielded in ideological battles. But it may be the most important change in this country during our lifetimes-a sharp, fundamental shift in the character of American society, and not at all for the better.The income gap has been blamed on everything…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 7/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.23" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English