Occupy the future [electronic resource] / edited by David B. Grusky, Doug McAdam, Rob Reich and Debra Satz.

"How the Occupy movement has challenged the gap between American principles and American practice--and how we can realize our most cherished ideals."--Provided by publisher.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Grusky, David B. (Editor), McAdam, Doug (Editor), Reich, Rob (Editor), Satz, Debra (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2013.
Series:Boston review book.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Occupy the future / David B. Grusky, Doug McAdam, Rob Reich, Debra Satz
  • The empirical and normative foundation. Economic inequality in the United States: an occupy-inspired primer / David B. Grusky and Erin Cumberworth
  • Ethics and inequality / Rob Reich and Debra Satz
  • The sources of the takeoff. Increasing income inequality: economics and institutional ethics / Kenneth J. Arrow
  • Why is there so much poverty? / David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden
  • Who bears the brunt of the takeoff? Education and inequality / Sean F. Reardon
  • The double binds of economic and racial inequality / Prudence L. Carter
  • Gender and economic inequality / Shelley J. Correll
  • Inequality, politics, and democracy. Restarting history / Gary Segura
  • Political remedies to economic inequality / David D. Laitin
  • State millionaire taxes / Cristobal Young and Charles Varner
  • The politics of Occupy: now and looking ahead / Doug McAdam
  • The social costs of inequality. Capitalism versus the environment / Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich
  • The rising toll of inequality on health care and health status / Donald A. Barr
  • Inequality and culture. Occupy your imagination / Michele Elam and Jennifer DeVere Brody
  • What if we occupied language? / H. Samy Alim
  • Thinking big / David Palumbo-Liu.