The wealth inequality reader
By: edited by Dollars & Sense and United for a Fair Economy ; preface by Jesse Jackson Jr
Contributors: United for a Fair Economy
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Dollars & sense
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781878585691
Subjects: Income distribution; Wealth; Equality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292).
Table of contents: title: Sect. 1. Wealth inequality by the numbers. The wealth pie; title: What is wealth?; title: The super-rich; title: The wealthless; title: Class mobility; title: The owning class; title: The racial wealth gap; title: Women's wealth; title: World wide wealth; title: Measures of poverty; title: Ill and insolvent; title: Unequal recovery.; title: Sect. 2. The causes of inequality. The visible hand: seven government actions that have worsened inequality / Chuck Collins; title: The tax-cut con / Paul Krugman; title: Doubly divided: the racial wealth gap / Meizhu Lui; title: The meritocracy myth: an interview with Lani Guinier / Rebecca Parrish; title: The right-wing idea machine: moving an economic agenda / Chuck Collins; title: A legitimate mandate? maximizing returns to shareholders / Marjorie Kelly; title: Women and wealth: a primer / Amy Gluckman; title: Property: who has a right to what and why? / Arthur MacEwan; title: The homeownership myth / Howard Karger; title: School finance: inequality persists / Michael Engel; title: Fisherfolk out, tourists in / Vasuki Nesiah; title: Mind-boggling inequality / John Miller; title: Globalization: good for what ails you? / John Miller; title: Rich and poor in the global economy: an interview with Bob Sutcliffe.; title: Sect. 3. The consequences of inequality. Slicing up at the great barbeque / James Cypher; title: Geese, golden eggs, and traps: why inequality is bad for the economy / Chris Tilly; title: How wealth defines power: the politics of the new gilded age / Kevin Phillips; title: Housing blues / Betsy Leondar-Wright; title: Black job loss deja vu / Betsy Leondar-Wright; title: The hazards of life on-and off-the luxury lane / Sam Pizzigati; title: ABC's of AIDS prevention / Jessica Weisberg; title: Inequality: bad for your health: an interview with Ichiro Kawachi.; title: Sect. 4. Strategies for change. Tax wealth: great political economists and Andrew Carnegie agree / John Miller; title: Tax wealth to broaden wealth / Chuck Collins and Dedrick Muhammad; title: Closing the racial gap for the next generation / Meizhu Lui; title: Community economic development: an alternative vision for creating and distributing wealth / Thad Williamson; title: Flame-broiled shark: how predatory lending victims fought back and won / David Swanson; title: Unions and the wealth divide: an interview with Bill Fletcher / Meizhu Lui; title: Labor's capital: putting pension wealth to work for workers / Adria Scharf; title: Rights fight / Adam Sacks; title: Post-apartheid vineyards / William Mosely; title: COLORS: a worker cooperative restaurant challenges the industry / John Lawrence; title: The land trust solution / Michelle Sheehan; title: Burlington busts the affordable housing debate / Daniel Fireside.; title: Sect. 5. Looking forward. Transforming the engines of inequality / William Greider; title: The coming era of wealth taxation / Gar Alperovitz; title: No more savings! the case for social wealth / Ellen Frank; title: Washington State recycles social wealth / Chuck Collins; title: Sharing the wealth of the commons / Peter Barnes.