Inequality, Poverty, and the Fisc in Twentieth-century America
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Income distribution
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Income distribution
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Author : Robert D. Plotnick
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Income distribution
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Author : Dimitri B Papadimitriou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349229539
Author : Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780312094737
Author : Jeffrey G. Williamson
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Academic Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
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Monograph presenting a macroeconomic analysis of the relationship of economic development to wealth and income distribution inequality trends in the USA from the historical 1770s to the 1970s - rejects the notion that inequality was a necessary precondition of economic growth, and argues that complex interactions among such variables as technological change, labour supply and capital formation were sources of economic disparity. Bibliography pp. 335 to 349 and graphs.
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Page : 51 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Income distribution
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Author : David Huyssen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674281400
The Progressive Era has been depicted as a seismic event in American history--a landslide of reform that curbed capitalist excesses and reduced the gulf between rich and poor. Progressive Inequality cuts against the grain of this popular consensus, demonstrating how income inequality's growth prior to the stock market crash of 1929 continued to aggravate class divisions. As David Huyssen makes clear, Progressive attempts to alleviate economic injustice often had the effect of entrenching class animosity, making it more, not less, acute. Huyssen interweaves dramatic stories of wealthy and poor New Yorkers at the turn of the twentieth century, uncovering how initiatives in charity, labor struggles, and housing reform chafed against social, economic, and cultural differences. These cross-class actions took three main forms: prescription, in which the rich attempted to dictate the behavior of the poor; cooperation, in which mutual interest engendered good-faith collaboration; and conflict, in which sharply diverging interests produced escalating class violence. In cases where reform backfired, it reinforced a set of class biases that remain prevalent in America today, especially the notion that wealth derives from individual merit and poverty from lack of initiative. A major contribution to the history of American capitalism, Progressive Inequality makes tangible the abstract dynamics of class relations by recovering the lived encounters between rich and poor--as allies, adversaries, or subjects to inculcate--and opens a rare window onto economic and social debates in our own time.
Author : Frank S. Levy
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Page : 59 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2015
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We provide a comprehensive view of widening income inequality in the United States contrasting conditions since 1980 with those in earlier postwar years. We argue that the income distribution in each period was strongly shaped by a set of economic institutions. The early postwar years were dominated by unions, a negotiating framework set in the Treaty of Detroit, progressive taxes, and a high minimum wage - all parts of a general government effort to broadly distribute the gains from growth. More recent years have been characterized by reversals in all these dimensions in an institutional pattern known as the Washington Consensus. Other explanations for income disparities including skill-biased technical change and international trade are seen as factors operating within this broader institutional story.
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File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher : Pacific Palisades, Calif. : Goodyear Publishing Company
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
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