THE NEW GILDED AGE by David B. Grusky (Editor), Tamar Kricheli-Katz (Editor) ( 9780804759359 )

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THE NEW GILDED AGE
THE CRITICAL INEQUALITY DEBATES OF OUR TIME

By:

David B. Grusky (Editor), Tamar Kricheli-Katz (Editor)

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0804759359

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Publisher:

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

15 April, 2012

Series:

Studies in Social Inequality

Pages:

312

Description:

This book asks leading scholars to debate the causes of inequality, whether we have an obligation to help the poor, and the types of reforms that are most likely to eliminate or reduce inequality.

Synopsis:

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 outpt?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.

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