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The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
Michael Thompson
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Hardback. Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. The author presents America's intellectual history to reclaim the politics of inequality from the distortion of American conservatism. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely discussed. In this impassioned book, Michael J. Thompson reaches back into America's rich intellectual history to reclaim the politics of inequality from the distortion of recent American conservatism. He begins by ... Read more
Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely discussed. In this impassioned book, Michael J. Thompson reaches back into America's rich intellectual history to reclaim the politics of inequality from the distortion of recent American conservatism. He begins by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231140744
SKU
V9780231140744
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About Michael Thompson
Michael J. Thompson is assistant professor of political science at William Paterson University. His articles have appeared in New Political Science, Review for Radical Political Economics, Critical Sociology, New Politics, Owl of Minerva, European Journal of Social Theory, and Philosophy and Literature. He is the founder and editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture and the editor ... Read more
Reviews for The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
This is an important and original work, subtle and sophisticated in its analysis and unique in its scope.
Philip Green, professor of political science, New School University Thompson provides a great service in revisiting
and reviving
the tradition of seeing extreme economic inequality and democracy as incompatible.
Daniel Brook The Nation [A] sweeping intellectual history... Recommended. CHOICE
Philip Green, professor of political science, New School University Thompson provides a great service in revisiting
and reviving
the tradition of seeing extreme economic inequality and democracy as incompatible.
Daniel Brook The Nation [A] sweeping intellectual history... Recommended. CHOICE