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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: Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty? Is inequa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Grusky, David B., Kricheli-Katz, Tamar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Colección:Studies in social inequality.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : poverty and inequality in a new world / David B. Grusky and Tamar Kricheli-Katz
  • Rich and poor in the world community / Peter Singer
  • Global needs and special relationships / Richard W. Miller
  • (Some) inequality is good for you / Richard B. Freeman
  • Inequality and economic growth in comparative perspective / Jonas Pontusson
  • Rising inequality and American politics / John Ferejohn
  • Unequal democracy in America: the long view / Jeff Manza
  • A human capital account of the gender pay gap / Solomon Polachek
  • The sources of the gender pay gap / Francine D. Blau
  • A dream deferred : toward the U.S. racial future / Howard Winant
  • Racial and ethnic diversity and public policy / Mary C. Waters.