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Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Devin Fergus
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Description for Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC; JFFM; JFSC; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality - a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro problems that contribute to growing inequality, they overlook one innocuous but substantial contributor to the widening divide: the explosion of fees accompanying virtually every transaction that people make. As Devin Fergus shows in Land of the Fee, these perfectly legal fees are buried ... Read more
Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality - a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro problems that contribute to growing inequality, they overlook one innocuous but substantial contributor to the widening divide: the explosion of fees accompanying virtually every transaction that people make. As Devin Fergus shows in Land of the Fee, these perfectly legal fees are buried ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
OUP USA
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199970162
SKU
V9780199970162
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99-21
About Devin Fergus
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
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
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