The wealth inequality reader
By: edited by Linda Pinkow, Sam Pizzigati, and the Dollars & Sense Collective
Contributors: Dollars & Sense (Organization)
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Dollars & Sense, Economic Affairs Bureau
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781939402004
Subjects: Income distribution; Wealth; Equality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The wealth pie; title: What is wealth?; title: The super-rich; title: The owning class; title: The median and its variance; title: The wealthless; title: The squeezed middle; title: Class mobility; title: The racial wealth gap; title: Women's wealth; title: World wide wealth; title: Inequality, power, and ideology / Arthur MacEwan; title: The undeserving rich / Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly; title: Have the rich won? / Sam Pizzigati; title: How the rules got rigged / Chuck Collins; title: Nearly $2 trillion purloined from U.S. workers in 2009 / James M. Cypher; title: Corporate profits leak through loopholes / John Miller; title: Property: who has a right to what and why? / Arthur MacEwan; title: The homeownership myth / Howard Karger; title: Persistent and pernicious: the racial wealth gap / Meizhu Lui; title: Women and wealth: a primer / Amy Gluckman; title: Different anti-poverty programs, same single-mother poverty / Randy Albelda; title: Capitalism hits the fan / Richard D. Wolff; title: Slicing up at the long barbeque / James Cypher; title: Geese, golden eggs, and traps: why inequality is bad for the economy / Chris Tilly; title: Madison Avenue declares mass affluence over / Sam Pizzigati; title: Tax cuts and economic growth / Arthur MacEwan; title: Taxes and transparency: our opaque opulent / Sam Pizzigati; title: Stock market gains inconsequential for most Americans / Sylvia A. Allegretto; title: Who gets those trillions? / Arthur MacEwan; title: The great recession in Black wealth / Jeannette Wicks-Lim; title: Inequality: bad for your health: an interview with Ichiro Kawachi; title: Swedes, equality, and suicides / Sam Pizzigati; title: Tax wealth: great political economists and Andrew Carnegie agree / John Miller; title: Tax wealth to broaden wealth / Chuck Collins and Dedrick Muhammad; title: A new WPA? / Ryan A. Dodd; title: How high could the minimum wage go? / Jeannette Wicks-Lim; title: A bold new labor call for a maximum wage / Sam Pizzigati; title: Bail out the safety net / Randy Albelda; title: Closing the racial wealth gap for the next generation / Meizhu Lui; title: The land trust solution / Michelle Sheehan; title: No more savings!: the case for social wealth / Ellen Frank; title: Sharing the wealth of the commons / Peter Barnes; title: An anti-poverty authority changes his mind / Sam Pizzigati; title: The 99%, the 1%, and class struggle / Alejandro Reuss; title: Turning towards solutions / Richard D. Wolff; title: Why greater equality strengthens society / Sam Pizzigati.