New Gilded Age The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time

Name: New Gilded Age The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time
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ISBN: 9780804759366

ISBN-10: 0804759367

ISBN-13: 9780804759366

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Grusky, Tamar Kricheli-Katz

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Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality:• Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty?• Is inequality a necessary evil that's the best way available to motivate economic action and increase total output?• Can we retain a meaningful democracy even when extreme inequality allows the rich to purchase political privilege?• Is the recent stalling out of long-term declines in gender inequality a historic reversal that presages a new gender order?• How are racial and ethnic inequalities likely to…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction: Poverty and Inequality in a New World




Do We Have an Obligation to Eliminate Poverty?


Rich and Poor in the World Community



Global Needs and Special Relationships




How Much Inequality Do We Need? (Some) Inequality Is Good for You



Inequality and Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective




Is There a Political Solution to Rising Inequality?


Rising Inequality and American Politics



Unequal Democracy in America: The Long View




Why is There a Gender Gap in Pay?


A Human Capital Account of the Gender Pay Gap



The Sources of the Gender Pay Gap




The Future of Race and Ethnicity


A Dream Deferred: Toward the U.S. Racial Future



Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy



Notes


Index