Land of the Fee - Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class

Zusatztext This book is an outstanding primary text and faculty resource for upper-division and graduate classes in public and taxation policy and financial markets, regulation, and ethics Informationen zum Autor Devin Fergus is a Senior Fellow at Demos and Associate Professor at The Ohio State University. Author of Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics (a CHOICE Outstanding Title for 2010), he has written widely on politics, policy, and inequality in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Prospect, The Guardian, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Klappentext Land of the Fee exposes the barely visible system of fees that pervades everyday life in America, and explores how this system has shaped wealth inequality in contemporary America. Zusammenfassung Land of the Fee exposes the barely visible system of fees that pervades everyday life in America, and explores how this system has shaped wealth inequality in contemporary America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction Section One: Home Section Two: School Section Three: Work Section Four: Transportation Section Five: Implications Abroad Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Devin Fergus, Devin (Associate Professor of African Amer Fergus
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2018
• EAN: 9780199970162
• ISBN: 978-0-19-997016-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Social Mobility, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Social impact of disasters, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made), Land of the Fee