The Wealth Inequality Reader
- Edition:
- 2nd
- Date of publication:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-1-878585-69-1
- Pages:
- 295
- Price:
- $24.95
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Section I Wealth Inequality by the Numbers
- The Wealth Pie
- What Is Wealth?
- The Super-Rich
- The Wealthless
- Class Mobility
- The Owning Class
- The Racial Wealth Gap
- Women's Wealth
- World Wide Wealth
- Measures of poverty
- Ill and Insolvent
- African Americans Lose Ground
- Section II The Causes of Inequality
- The Visible Hand: Seven Government Actions That Have Worsened Inequality
- The Tax-Cut Con
- Tax Cuts for the Rich—Or Public Programs for Everyone?
- Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap
- The Meritocracy Myth
- The Right-Wing Idea Machine: Moving an Economic Agenda
- A Legitimate Mandate? Maximizing Returns to Shareholders
- Women and Wealth: A Primer
- Property: Who Has a Right to What and Why?
- The Homeownership Myth
- School Finance: Inequality Persists
- Fisherfolk Out, Tourists In
- Mind-Boggling Inequality
- Rich and Poor in the Global Economy
- Section III The Consequences of Inequality
- Slicing Up at the Long Barbeque
- Geese, Golden Eggs, and Traps: Why Inequality Is Bad for the Economy
- How Wealth Defines Power: The Politics of the New Gilded Age
- Housing Blues
- Black Job Loss Déjà Vu
- The Hazards of Life On—and Off—the Luxury Lane
- ABCs of AIDS Prevention
- Section IV Strategies for Change
- Tax Wealth: Great Political Economists and Andrew Carnegie Agree
- Tax Wealth to Broaden Wealth
- Closing the Racial Wealth Gap for the Next Generation
- Community Economic Development: An Alternative Vision for Creating and Distributing Wealth
- Flame-Broiled Shark: How Predatory Lending Victims Fought Back and Won
- Unions and the Wealth Divide: An Interview With Bill Fletcher
- Labor's Capital: Putting Pension Wealth to Work for Workers
- Rights Fight
- Post-Apartheid Vineyards
- Co-ops in the U.S. Solidarity Economy: COLORS Restaurant
- The Land Trust Solution
- Burlington Busts the Affordable Housing Debate
- Section V Looking Forward
- Transforming the Engines of Inequality
- The Coming Era of Wealth Taxation
- No More Savings! The Case for Social Wealth
- Washington State Recycles Social Wealth
- Sharing the Wealth of the Commons Peter Barnes
- Appendix
- Wealth-Building Strategies
- References
- Contributors