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United States Trends in Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Well-Being analyzes economic trends, examines income inequality, and discusses what can be done to increase economic mobility today.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction, Diana Furchtgott-Roth
- Chapter 1: The Ins and Outs of Measuring Income Inequality in the United States, Steven Rose
- Chapter 2: Income and Wealth Inequality: Evidence and Policy Implications, Emmanuel Saez
- Chapter 3: Improving Economic Opportunity in the United States, Jared Bernstein
- Chapter 4: Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016), James Elwell, Kevin Corinth, and Richard V. Burkhauser
- Chapter 5: Top Income Shares and the Difficulties of Using Tax Data, Gerald Auten and David Splinter
- Chapter 6: The Effects of the Movement of Women into the Workforce on Income Trends, Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Beila Leboeuf
- Chapter 7: Explaining Race and Gender Wage Gaps, June O'Neill and Dave O'Neill
- Chapter 8: The Distribution of Wealth in America, 1983-2013, John C. Weicher
- Chapter 9: Public Opinion on Inequality, Karlyn Bowman and Eleanor O'Neil
- Chapter 10: Economics of Inequality in High-Wage Economies, Edward Conard
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Diana Furchtgott-Roth is an economist and author of five books on economic policy. She previously served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the US Department of the Treasury and now serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the US Department of Transportation.
Zusammenfassung
Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially. Still, by some measures, income inequality has increased as well. This has been the subject of contested public policy and political discourse. The question still stands: How can we better articulate the nuanced changes in American incomes? It is difficult to have conversations about income inequality without an agreed-upon set of terms, metrics, and concepts.
United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, edited by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, examines the trends in income growth in the United States and explores various measures of income, including market, post-tax, and post-transfer income. Within each chapter, distinguished experts explain how income and wealth--and the way we measure them--have changed in the United States, which demographic groups have benefited from these changes, and how mobility has changed over time and over generations. Specific chapters explain the roles of gender and race. The resulting book is relevant to modern international policy, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and addresses what can be done to increase economic mobility in the United States.
Zusatztext
This book provides readers fodder for many engaging discussions on income inequality.
