The crisis of the middle-class constitution
Subtitle: why economic inequality threatens our republic
By: Ganesh Sitaraman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780451493910
Subjects: Equality; Income distribution; Plutocracy; Constitutional law; Middle class; Social conditions; Economic aspects; Power (Social sciences)
Other titles: Why economic inequality threatens our republic
Description: "Argues that America's strong and sizable middle class is actually embedded in the framework of the nation's government and its founding document and discusses the necessity of taking equality-establishing measures,"--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-402) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The radicalism of the American Constitution; title: From Athens to America : the two traditions; title: America's middle-class constitution; title: Part II. A brief history of the middle-class constitution; title: The emergence of the plutocracy; title: The search for solutions; title: Part III. The crisis of the middle-class constitution; title: How economic inequality threatens the Republic; title: The future of the middle-class constitution.