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The New Gilded Age : the Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time.
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: & bull; Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate povert...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Studies in social inequality.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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: & bull; Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty? & bull; Is inequality a necessary evil that's the best way available to motivate economic action and increase total output? & bull; Can we retain a meaningful democracy even when extreme inequality allows the rich to purchase political privilege? & bull; Is the recent stalling out of long-term de. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (312 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804781992 0804781990 9780804759359 0804759359 9780804759366 0804759367 |