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The new dollars and dreams : American incomes in the late 1990s

Tác giả: Frank Levy

A brilliant book that both clarifies and explains the seemingly contradictory trends of a booming economy, wage stagnation, and growing income inequality.

Uneven tides : rising inequality in America

Tác giả: Sheldon H. Danziger, Peter Gottschalk

With the rise in inequality now much in the headlines, it is clear that our nation's ability to reverse these shifting currents requires deeper understanding of their causes and consequences. Uneven Tides is the first book to get beyond the news stories to a clear analysis of the changing fortunes...

Dollars and Dreams

Tác giả: Levy, Frank

Levy vividly ties together recent social and ecomonic trends such as the baby bust, deficits in Washington, single parent households, income growth among the elderly, the rise of the suburbs, and the fall of the steel industry

Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality

Tác giả: Richard G. Wilkinson

Using examples from the USA, Britain, Japan and Eastern Europe, and bringing together evidence from the social and medical sciences, Unhealthy Socities provides the explanation. Healthy, egalitarian societies are more socially cohesive. They have a stronger community life and suffer fewer of the...