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The Conscience of a Liberal
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Paul Krugman
This original volume by the bestselling author of "The Great Unraveling" challenges America to reclaim the values that have made it great. Krugman weaves together a nuanced account of three generations of history with sharp political, social, and economic analysis.
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The Economic Naturalists Field Guide: Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times
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Robert H Frank
The "New York Times" columnist and author of "The Economic Naturalist," Robert Frank returns to show how behavioral economics can illuminate some of the most important issues of our times
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Inequality and Society: Social Science Perspectives on Social Stratification
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Jeff Manza (Editor), Michael Sauder (Editor)
Designed for undergraduate courses on inequality, this reader is the first and only one to incorporate political inequality into the discussion of social stratification.
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Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
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Robert H Frank
Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, Robert Frank explains how increased ...
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State of Working America
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Lawrence Mishel, David M Frankel, Paula Voos (Editor)
This work provides a comprehensive portrait of how the US standard of living has changed during recent years, as compared to the whole period since World War II. The study presents statistics that are compiled from government and private data sources. Using the evidence, the authors analyze trends in income, wages, jobs, wealth, poverty and the ...
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The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why
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Dalton Conley
Inequality begins at home, according to this exploration of the "pecking order" in American families.
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Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality
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Mitchell A Seligson
This revised and expanded edition of "Development and Underdevelopment" retains many of the selections that made the first edition so popular for classroom use, while adding new material to make it even more appealing. New material includes: studies that enable readers to trace levels of national development back to the beginning of the 19th ...
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Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (and Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)
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Jared Bernstein
In this lively and irreverent tour through everyday economic mysteries, premier economist Jared Bernstein helps readers decode economic "analysis", navigate through murky ethical quandaries, and make sound economic decisions that reflect their deepest aspirations for themselves, their families, and their country. Chances are, if there's a stumper ...
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Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay
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James K Galbraith
The boom of the US economy in the late 1990s suggests that Americans are better off than they were a decade ago, but this is not true across the board. The reason, as this text explains, is wage inequality.
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America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy
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Gar Alperovitz
"Be prepared for a mind-opening experience." - "The Christian Century". "Highly readable; excellent for students...A tonic and eye-opener for anyone who wants a politics that works." - Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. ""America Beyond Capitalism" comes at a critical time in our history ...
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Power & Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification
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Gerhard E Lenski
Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories.
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Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe Vs. Liberal America
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Jonas Pontusson
What are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing debates have heated up in recent years with the expansion of the European Union and increasingly sharp political and cultural differences between the United States and Europe. In Inequality and Prosperity, Jonas Pontusson provides a comparative overview ...
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Durable Inequality
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Charles Tilly, Ph.D.
Charles Tilly, in this manifesto, presents an approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male ...
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The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
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Benjamin M Friedman
From the author of the acclaimed "Day of Reckoning" comes a persuasive argument that broadly distributed economic growth provides benefits far beyond the material, creating and strengthening democratic institutions, establishing political stability, and enhancing opportunity.
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Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
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Nolan McCarty, Keith T Poole, Dr. Howard Rosenthal
This book presents an analysis of how the increasing polarisation of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality, rising immigration, and other social and economic changes. The idea of America as politically polarized - that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states - has ...
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Class War?: What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
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Benjamin I Page, Professor Lawrence R Jacobs
Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America's fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But ...
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Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare
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Torben Iversen
This book builds on new institutionalist theory in both economics and political science to offer a general political economy framework for the study of welfare capitalism. Based on the key idea that social protection in a modern economy, both inside and outside the state, can be understood as protection of specific investments in human capital, ...
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Economic Development
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Professor E Wayne Nafziger
In this fourth edition of his textbook E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. This comprehensive and clearly written text explains the growth in real income per person and income disparities within and between developing countries. The author explains the reasons for the fast ...
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The Ethics of Redistribution
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Baron B de Jouvenel
The Ethics of Redistribution was originally delivered as a Boutwood Lecture at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1949. The Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel was then an already internationally regarded philosopher whose learned style was a calculated blend of moral. historical and political considerations. In this essay, split between ...
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Poverty and Income Distribution
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Edward N Wolff
Written by a leading scholar in the field, this textbook provides a thorough introduction to the topic of income distribution and poverty, with additional emphasis on the issues of inequality and discrimination. It features an empirical flavor throughout and includes optional econometric studies. It will appeal to a broad range of readers in ...
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Paradox of Plenty: Hunger in a Bountiful World
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Douglas H Boucher
Excerpts from thirty-two of Food First's best publications provide an integrated overview of the world food system, the U.S. role in that system, how global politics affect hungry people, and the impact of the free market.
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What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality
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Benjamin I Page, James Roy Simmons
Can governments do anything right? Can they do anything at all about the problems of poverty and inequality? Despite the recent boom in the U.S. economy, many millions of Americans have been left behind. Poverty rates remain higher than in most other industrialized countries. Income inequality has increased sharply. Yet we are sometimes told that ...
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Betrayal of Work
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Beth Shulman
Shulman spent several years traveling across the country talking to those living on low wages. In writing "The Betrayal of Work, " she provides the fullest portrait of America's working poor. Following in the footsteps of Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling "Nickel and Dimed, " this is sure to be one of the most talked about public policy books of ...
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The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change
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Lester C Thurow
A classic in economics from the three-time New York Times best seller. Written during a period of acute economic stagnation in 1980, The Zero-Sum Society discusses the human implications of economic problem solving. Interpreting macroeconomics as a zero-sum game, Thurow proposes that the American economy will not solve its most trenchant problems ...
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Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality & Insecurity
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Chuck Collins, Felice Yeskel
Revised following the 2004 presidential election, a graphic portrait of the growing gap between the rich and everyone else in America. - In 1968, African Americans earned 55 cents for every dollar of white income. At the current pace, it would take 581 years for African Americans to achieve income parity. - States including Alabama, Tennessee, ...
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