The Wealth Inequality Reader

Edition:4th

Date of publication:December 2012

ISBN:978-1-939402-00-4

Pages:202

Price:$35.95

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The Wealth Inequality Reader is an essential guide to wealth and poverty in the United States and globally. The fourth edition features the latest statistics on wealth and inequality, analysis of the role of wealth inequality in the current economic crisis, and new strategies for change.A lively, thought-provoking supplement for classes in economic distribution, inequality, social problems, political economy, economic geography, and other disciplines, this book is a must-have for both activists and scholars.

Edited by Linda Pinkow, Sam Pizzigati, and the Dollars & Sense Collective, with a new preface by Chuck Collins.

Contributors include: Randy Albelda, Sylvia Allegretto, Gar Alperovitz, Peter Barnes, James Cypher, Howard Karger, Meizhu Lui, Arthur MacEwan, Richard D. Wolff, and many others.

"The Wealth Inequality Reader is a wonderful resource and a marvelous teaching tool. It should be required reading for students of economics and politics. Indeed, it should be required reading for anyone who aspires to understand the basics of the US economy. I recommend it with enthusiasm." —TIM KOECHLIN, Vassar College

"My students in Social Inequality were pleasantly surprised at The Wealth Inequality Reader. Most were expecting dry and dusty traditional texts. They were also impressed with the timeliness of the articles, and the emphasis on wealth, rather than income."
  — ROBERT E. PARKER, University of Nevada–Las Vegas.

The Wealth Inequality Reader, 4th edition:

• Preface
• Introduction: Wealth Inequality by the Numbers
  • The Wealth Pie
  • What Is Wealth?
  • The Super-Rich
  • The Owning Class
  • The Median and Its Variance
  • The Wealthless
  • The Squeezed Middle
  • Class Mobility
  • The Owning Class
  • The Racial Wealth Gap
  • Women's Wealth
  • World Wide Wealth
• Section I: The Causes of Inequality
  • Inequality, Power, and IdeologyArthur MacEwan
  • The Undeserving RichGar Alperovitz and Lew Daly
  • Have the Rich Won?Sam Pizzigati
  • How the Rules Got RiggedChuck Collins
  • Nearly $2 Trillion Purloined from U.S. Workers in 2009James M. Cypher
  • Corporate Profits Leak Through LoopholesJohn Miller
  • Property: Who Has a Right to What and Why?Arthur MacEwan
  • The Homeownership MythHoward Karger
  • Persistent and Pernicious: The Racial Wealth GapMeizhu Lui
  • Women and Wealth: A PrimerAmy Gluckman
  • Different Anti-Poverty Programs, Same Single-Mother PovertyRandy Albelda
  • Capitalism Hits the FanRick Wolff
• Section II: The Consequences of Inequality
  • Slicing Up at the Long BarbequeJames M. Cypher
  • Geese, Golden Eggs, and Traps: Why Inequality Is Bad for the EconomyChris Tilly
  • Madison Avenue Declares �Mass Affluence� OverSam Pizzigati
  • Tax Cuts and Economic GrowthArthur MacEwan
  • Taxes and Transparency: Our Opaque OpulentSam Pizzigati
  • Who Gets Those Trillions?Arthur MacEwan
  • The Great Recession in Black WealthJeannette Wicks-Lim
  • Inequality: Bad for Your HealthAn Interview with Ichiro Kawachi
  • Swedes, Equality, and SuicidesSam Pizzigati
• Section III: Strategies for Change
  • Tax Wealth: Great Political Economists and Andrew Carnegie AgreeJohn Miller
  • Tax Wealth to Broaden WealthChuck Collins and Dedrick Muhammad
  • A New WPA?Ryan A. Dodd
  • How High Could the Minimum Wage Go?Jeannette Wicks–Lim
  • A Bold New Labor Call for a �Maximum Wage�Sam Pizzigati
  • Bail Out the Safety NetRandy Albelda
  • Closing the Racial Wealth Gap for the Next GenerationMeizhu Lui
  • The Land Trust SolutionMichelle Sheehan
  • No More Savings! The Case for Social WealthEllen Frank
  • Sharing the Wealth of the CommonsPeter Barnes
  • An Anti-Poverty Authority Changes His MindSam Pizzigati
  • The 99%, the 1%, and Class StruggleAlejandro Reuss
  • Turning Towards SolutionsRichard D. Wolff
  • Why Greater Equality Strengthens SocietySam Pizzigati
• Contributors