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Falling behind : how rising inequality harms the middle class /
With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy ;
4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off ""expenditure cascades"" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class. Writing in lively pr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 148 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-140) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520957435 0520957431 |