The new gilded age
Subtitle: the critical inequality debates of our time
By: edited by David B. Grusky and Tamar Kricheli-Katz
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780804759359; 9780804759366
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Equality; Poverty; Discrimination
Description: 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 evolve as minority populations grow ever larger, as intermarriage increases, and as new forms of immigration unfold? Leading public intellectuals debate these questions in a no-holds-barred exploration of our New Gilded Age.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : poverty and inequality in a new world / David B. Grusky and Tamar Kricheli-Katz; title: Rich and poor in the world community / Peter Singer; title: Global needs and special relationships / Richard W. Miller; title: (Some) inequality is good for you / Richard B. Freeman; title: Inequality and economic growth / Jonas Pontusson; title: Rising inequality and American politics / John Ferejohn; title: Inequality and American democracy / Jeff Manza; title: A human capital account of the gender gap / Solomon Polachek; title: The sources of the gender gap / Fran Blau; title: A dream deferred : toward the U.S. racial future / Howard Winant; title: Racial and ethnic diversity and public policy / Mary C. Waters.