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Saturday, 5 June 2010

Inequality in America

Author: Uri Dadush
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Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0815724217
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Inequality in America: Facts, Trends, and International Perspectives

Income inequality has been on the rise since the late 1970s, but the economic and financial crisis of 2008 instigated an unemployment epidemic that dramatically compounded this problem in the United States and catapulted the issue to the center of debate.Inequality in America review. There is wide agreement across the political spectrum that high inequality is contributing to undesirable circumstances such as stagnated median household income, rising poverty rates, and increased borrowing and debt; though there is much less agreement on remedies.

Inequality in America provides a snapshot of the issues posed by growing economic disparity, focusing particularly on America but drawing on international comparisons to help set the context. The authors examine the economic, technological, and political drivers of inequality as well as identify worrying trends associated with its rise, making the issues surrounding income distribution accessible to a wider public.

The authors, each affiliated with Brookings or the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, demonstrate how specific factors have exacerbated income inequality, including technological change, international trade, changes in labor market participation, and the increasing role of the financial sectorRead full reviews of Persistence of Social Inequality in America.

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The surge of inequality in income and wealth in the United States has reversed the steady progress toward greater equality that had been underway throughout most of the 20th century. This text examines the ways in which human capital policies can address this important problem.

Persistence of Social Inequality in America

by John R. Dalphin - Schenkman Books, Inc. (1987) - Paperback - ISBN 0870470434 9780870470431

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America ISBN:1442202181

[ Ships Daily ] Condition: Good[ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ISBN: 1442202181 Edition:third Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Pub Date: 11/16/2009 Binding: Paperback Pages: 318

Uneven Tides Rising Inequality in America, 9780871542229

Uneven Tides Rising Inequality in America, ISBN-13: 9780871542229, ISBN-10: 0871542226

The surge of inequality in income and wealth in the United States over the past twenty-five years has reversed the steady progress toward greater equality that had been underway throughout most of the twentieth century. This economic development has defied historical patterns and surprised many economists, producing vigorous debate. Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? examines the ways in which human capital policies can address this important problem. Taking it as a given that potentially low-income workers would benefit from more human capital in the form of market s

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There is wide agreement across the political spectrum that high inequality is contributing to undesirable circumstances such as stagnated median household income, rising poverty rates, and increased borrowing and debt; though there is much less agreement on remedies.

"Tackling the worst effects of inequality and reestablishing a measure of equal opportunity requires increased investment in crucial public goods, beginning with education, a more progressive and simplified tax system, and increased international cooperation to avoid a race to the bottom. Such policies are pursued by other high-performing advanced countries and can be shaped in a way that is fully consistent with an efficient and competitive American economy."

Contents

1. Introduction

2. The Increase of Inequality in the United States

3. Three Other Worrying Trends Associated with Rising Inequality

4. The Causes of Rising Inequality

5. Policy, Politics, and Inequality

6. What Can Be Done?

7. Concluding Remarks

Thursday, 11 June 2009

Inequality and Instability

Author: James K. Galbraith
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 019985565X
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Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis

As Wall Street rose to dominate the U.Inequality and Instability review. . economy, income and pay inequalities in America came to dance to the tune of the credit cycle. As the reach of financial markets extended across the globe, interest rates, debt, and debt crises became the dominant forces driving the rise of economic inequality almost everywhere. Thus the "super-bubble" that investor George Soros identified in rich countries for the two decades after 1980 was a super-crisis for the 99 percent-not just in the URead full reviews of Inequality And Instability ....

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As Wall Street rose to dominate the US economy, income and pay inequalities in America came to dance to the tune of the credit cycle. As the reach of financial markets extended across the globe, interest rates, debt, and debt crises became the dominant forces driving the rise of economic inequality almost everywhere. Thus the 'super-bubble' that investor George Soros identified in rich countries for the two decades after 1980 was a super-crisis for the 99 percent-not just in the US but the entire world. Inequality and Instability demonstrates that finance is the driveshaft that links inequalit

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author james k galbraith format hardback language english publication year 03 05 2012 subject management business economics industry subject 2 economics professional general goddings limited presents inequality and instability a study of the world economy just before the great crisis isbn 019985565 x author james k galbraith publisher oxford university press usa date 2012 03 30 seller sku gard 0199855650 qty available 1 format hardcover condition new notes brand new book will ship 1 st class to

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. economy, income and pay inequalities in America came to dance to the tune of the credit cycle. As the reach of financial markets extended across the globe, interest rates, debt, and debt crises became the dominant forces driving the rise of economic inequality almost everywhere. Thus the "super-bubble" that investor George Soros identified in rich countries for the two decades after 1980 was a super-crisis for the 99 percent-not just in the U.S. but the entire world.

Inequality and Instability demonstrates that finance is the driveshaft that links inequality to economic instability. The book challenges those, mainly on the right, who see mysterious forces of technology behind rising inequality. And it also challenges those, mainly on the left, who have placed the blame narrowly on trade and outsourcing. Inequality and Instability presents straightforward evidence that the rise of inequality mirrors the stock market in the U.S. and the rise of finance and of free-market policies elsewhere. Starting from the premise that fresh argument requires fresh evidence, James K. Galbraith brings new data to bear as never before, presenting information built up over fifteen years in easily understood charts and tables. By measuring inequality at the right geographic scale, Galbraith shows that more equal societies systematically enjoy lower unemployment. He shows how this plays out inside Europe, between Europe and the United States, and in modern China. He explains that the dramatic rise of inequality in the U.S. in the 1990s reflected a finance-driven technology boom that concentrated incomes in just five counties, very remote from the experience of most Americans-which helps explain why the political reaction was so slow to come. That the reaction is occurring now, however, is beyond doubt. In the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis, inequality has become, in America and the world over, the central issue.

A landmark work of research and original insight, Inequality and Instability will change forever the way we understand this pivotal topic.

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Legalizing Gender Inequality

Author: Robert L. Nelson
Edition: First THUS Edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0521627508
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Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

Based on case studies of four organizations that were sued for pay discrimination, Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender inequality within economic, sociological, and legal contexts.Legalizing Gender Inequality review. Read full reviews of Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences).

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Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) - Robert L. Nelson, William P. Bridges

Review "Legalizing Gender Inequality presents a new organization-centered paradigm for understanding gender-differentials in pay, which promises to turn on its head standard thinking about the relationship between law, markets, and organizations. By offering important new insights into pay equity, gender relations in the workplace, and organization-market relations, Nelson and Bridges make significant contributions to the sociological literatures on gender, law, and organizations."Lauren Edelman, University of California, Berkeley "Legalizing Gender Inequality provides a truly pathbreaking ana

Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender inequality within economic, sociological, and legal organizations. The book argues that male-female earnings differentials cannot be

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Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender inequality within economic, sociological, and legal organization.

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The book argues that male-female earnings differentials cannot be explained adequately by market forces, principles of efficiency, or society-wide sexism. Rather it suggests that employing organizations tend to disadvantage holders of predominantly female jobs by denying them power in organizational politics and reproducing male cultural advantages. The book argues that the courts have, by uncritically accepting the market explanation for wage disparity, tended to legitimate and to legalize a crucial dimension of gender inequality.