The Wealth Inequality Reader
- Edition:
- 3rd
- Date of publication:
- August 2009
- ISBN:
- 978-1-878585-53-0
- Pages:
- 300
- Price:
- $32.95
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction 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
- Section I Inequality and the Current Crisis
- What’s in a Name?
- From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
- Inequality, Power, and Ideology
- Who Gets Those Trillions?
- Capitalism Hits the Fan
- The Homeownership Myth
- Financialization: A Primer
- Hot Commodities, Stuffed Markets, and Empty Bellies
- Gender and Recession
- Should We Be Talking About Living Wages Now
- Bail Out the Safety Net
- Section II The Causes of Inequality
- The Visible Hand: Seven Government Actions That Have Worsened Inequality
- One–Quarter of Large U.S. Corporations Don’t Pay Profit Taxes—Why Should the Rest?
- Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap
- The Meritocracy Myth
- Women and Wealth: A Primer
- Property: Who Has a Right to What and Why?
- School Finance: Inequality Persists
- Mind-Boggling Inequality
- Rich and Poor in the Global Economy
- Ill and Insolvent
- Section III The Consequences of Inequality
- Slicing Up at the Long Barbeque
- Geese, Golden Eggs, and Traps: Why Inequality Is Bad for the Economy
- Inequality: Bad for Your Health
- The Right to Stay Home
- 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
- Labor’s Capital: Putting Pension Wealth to Work for Workers
- Rights Fight: Small Town Values vs. Corporate Agriculture
- Post-Apartheid Vineyards
- The Land Trust Solution
- Housing Land Trusts Keep Prices Affordable—For Now and Forever
- Reforming Land Reform: Nepal’s Land–Right Movement Moves Beyond Failed Market–Based Approaches
- A New WPA?
- 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
- America Beyond Consumerism
- Climate Change and Ecosociolism
- Contributors
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