New Gilded Age - The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time

Zusatztext " The New Gilded Age features incredibly insightful and timely debates between leading philosophers, economists, political scientists, and sociologists on the sources and future of inequality in the United States. This well written and accessible volume is a must-read not only for scholars, but for educated laymen and policymakers as well." Informationen zum Autor David B. Grusky is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. He is coauthor of The Inequality Puzzle (2010) and coeditor of The Great Recession (2011) and The Inequality Reader (2011). Tamar Kricheli-Katz is Assistant Professor in the Buchman Faculty of Law and in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. Klappentext This book asks leading scholars to debate the causes of inequality, whether we have an obligation to help the poor, and the types of reforms that are most likely to eliminate or reduce inequality. Zusammenfassung This book asks leading scholars to debate the causes of inequality, whether we have an obligation to help the poor, and the types of reforms that are most likely to eliminate or reduce inequality.

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• Authors: David (EDT)/ Kricheli-katz Grusky, David B. Kricheli-Katz Grusky, David Kricheli-Katz Grusky, GRUSKY DAVID B KRICHELI KATZ TA
• Assisted by: David Grusky (Editor), David B. Grusky (Editor), Tamar Kricheli-Katz (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2012
• EAN: 9780804759359
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5935-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality (
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories