The confiscation of American purity
Subtitle: from right-wing extremism and economic ideology to the next great depression
By: Michael Perelman
Contributors: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9780230607064
Subjects: Economic conditions; Income distribution; Social structure; Capitalism
Description: This book argues that the right-wing revolution in the United States has created deepening inequality and will lead to economic catastrophe. The author makes the case that over the past three decades the rich have confiscated wealth and income from the poor and middle class to a far greater extent than many realize, and he explores in detail important but commonly unmeasured dimensions of inequality. He also takes aim at the economics profession, criticising the analytical blinders that leave economists incapable of seeing the coming crisis.
Notes: Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 3, 2009). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
Table of contents: title: The Great Capitalist Restoration; title: The End of the Golden Age of Capitalism; title: The Right Mobilizes; title: Richard Nixon's Class War; title: Remaking the World for Business; title: How the Right-Wing Victory Destroys Prosperity; title: The Impotence of Economics.