income inequality
Oct 17
2009
2009
Paul Krugman – Income Inequality and the Middle Class
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Social Stratification and Divisions: Social Class in America DVD (1957) $4.99 Social Class in America is a dramatized sociological experiment used to expose what class divisions mean in America. Produced in the 1950s (when class divisions were more rigid), the film captures three newborn boys from a small American town. One, Gil Ames, is the son of a wealthy manufacturer. Ted Eastwood is middle class, the son of a white collar worker. Dave Benton is the lower class son of p… |
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Historic Poverty Films on DVD: 1948-1967 Salvation Army, Public Housing, Human Rights, Hunger, Ghetto Inequality & Welfare Filmstrips $12.99 Explore the history of poverty in America first-hand with this special DVD compilation of historical filmstrips featuring great movies from the Salvation Army, the United Fund and other positive social organizations. There are six films and 96 minutes of invaluable video history that helped bring about social change in the United States. Table Of Contents: (1) Poverty in Rural America (1956) – Thi… |
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Inequality Matters $14.90 Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Moyers and Robert Franklin on the growing concentration of wealth, income, and economic and political power in America. This crisply shot and edited video includes three memorable speeches from a groundbreaking conference held in June 2004…. |
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Class War?: What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality $5.36 Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America’s fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jac… |
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Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class (The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy) $10.98 Although middle-income families don’t earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the e… |
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Inequality and Society: Social Science Perspectives on Social Stratification $35.75 Designed for undergraduate courses on inequality, this reader is the first and only one to incorporate political inequality into the discussion of social stratification. With the ideal balance of classic essays and more contemporary studies, Inequality and Society covers the standard themes of poverty and inequality while bringing political institutions into the analysis. …. |
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The Politics of Income Inequality in the United States (Hardcover) $68.86 This book revolves around one central question: Do political dynamics have a systematic and predictable influence on distributional outcomes in the United States? The answer is a resounding yes. Utilizing data from mass income surveys, elite surveys, a… |
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Confronting Income Inequality in Japan (Paperback) $15.84 Description not available. |
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Blue-Collar Blues $18.95 Is trade to blame for rising US income inequality? Not really, contends Lawrence (trade and investment, Harvard U.), who argues much of the reported gap between real blue-collar wages and labor productivity growth is due to measurement issues and the r… |
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Modeling Income Distributions and Lorenz Curves (Hardcover) $136.67 The parameterization of income distributions using Lorenz Curves is a useful technique to analyze the characteristics of income inequality within a given population. It provides a way of describing how data are generated, why the level of inequality is… |
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Inequality and Public Policy in China (Hardcover) $88.35 This book provides new analysis of inequality in China, with an emphasis on public policy considerations. Several chapters focus on inequality of income; others analyze poverty and inequality in wealth and wages. Topics covered include migrants, wome… |
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Inequality in America $20.04 The surge of inequality in income and wealth in the United States over the past twenty-five years has reversed the steady progress toward greater equality that had been underway throughout most of the twentieth century. This economic development has de… |
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Rethinking the Income Gap (Hardcover) $33.36 Economist Ryscavage (formerly of the US Bureau of Labor Statististics) complains that the media has been distorting the issues of income inequality in the United States such that there is now a public perception of an “income gap” which must be redress… |
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The Increase in Leisure Inequality, 1965-2005 (Paperback) $11.4 Recent research documents increasing income inequality in the United States in particular, a widening gap between well-educated and less-educated American workers. But income is not the sole measure of prosperity. The amount of time Americans spend in … |
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Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America (Hardcover) $28.34 High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central economic policy challenge for Latin American policymakers. At the same time, dramatically improved methods and data allow researchers to … |
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Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis (Paperback) $26.74 Inequality has always been with us. With the growth of capitalism across the globe, inequalities of income, wealth and power became increasingly extreme. Written by economist Douglas Dowd, this book shows that the present banking crisis … |
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Ain`t No Makin` It (Paperback) $37.25 This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. With the original 19… |
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Poverty and Income Distribution (Hardcover) $84.15 Written by a leading scholar in the field, this textbook provides a thorough introduction to the topic of income distribution and poverty, with additional emphasis on the issues of inequality and discrimination. Features an empirical fl… |
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Envisioning Real Utopias (Hardcover) $94.05 Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet there has been a global retreat by the Left: on the assumption that… |
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Saving Alma Mater (Hardcover) $17.97 America`s public universities educate 80% of our nation`s college students. But in the wake of rising demands on state treasuries, changing demographics, growing income inequality, and legislative indifference, many of these institutions have fallen in… |
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Envisioning Real Utopias (Paperback) $17.61 Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet there has been a global retreat by the Left: on the assumption that… |
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The Next Progressive Era (Hardcover) $17.01 Progressives 100 years ago were deeply concerned about vast income inequalities, concentrated corporate power, a weak labor movement, high immigration rates, threats to small-scale producers and retailers, middle-class debt levels, environmen… |
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Analyzing Redistribution Policies (Paperback) $39.59 First published in 1986, this book explores the areas of income distribution and welfare. Analyzing Redistribution Policies developed appropriate techniques to analyze the extent and nature of income inequality and welfare and to measure the direct imp… |
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For Protection and Promotion (Paperback) $42.75 Defined as transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable, safety nets redistribute income to reduce poverty and inequality, allow households to invest in their children and manage risk, and allow governments to implement reforms that support eff… |
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