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Plutocracy in America: How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor
Ronald P. Formisano
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Description for Plutocracy in America: How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor
Hardback. This data-driven book offers insight into the fallacy of widespread opportunity, the fate of the middle class, and the mechanisms that perpetuate income disparity. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; KCA; KCP; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 225 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined-more than almost any other developed nation-by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that an infrastructure of inequality, both open and hidden, obstructs the great majority in pursuing happiness, living healthy lives, and exercising basic rights. A government dominated by finance, corporate interests, and the wealthy has undermined democracy, stunted social mobility, and changed the character of the nation. In this tough-minded dissection of the gulf between the super-rich and the working and middle classes, Ronald P. ... Read more
The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined-more than almost any other developed nation-by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that an infrastructure of inequality, both open and hidden, obstructs the great majority in pursuing happiness, living healthy lives, and exercising basic rights. A government dominated by finance, corporate interests, and the wealthy has undermined democracy, stunted social mobility, and changed the character of the nation. In this tough-minded dissection of the gulf between the super-rich and the working and middle classes, Ronald P. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421417400
SKU
V9781421417400
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About Ronald P. Formisano
Ronald P. Formisano is the William T. Bryan Chair of American History and professor emeritus of history at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Tea Party: A Brief History and For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s.
Reviews for Plutocracy in America: How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor
Formisano has written an obituary for a way of American life that is coming to an end. Times Higher Education