Wealth and Want.

Wealth and Want.

There exist eight reliable ways to increase poverty and the United States is now pursuing seven of them, according to Lebergott. His provocative examination of income and wealth in this country reveals the impossibility of ending poverty permanently without changing American capitalism beyond recogn...

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Main Author: Lebergott, Stanley
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Wealth > United States.
Income distribution > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • CAN AMERICAN CAPITALISM END POVERTY?
  • ON CONFISCATION
  • THE SUBMERGED TENTH: COLOR AND ETHNIC GROUP INCOMES, 1900-1970
  • A CENTURY OF GUARANTEED INCOME IN THE U.S.
  • THE MINIMUM BUDGET: FROM "DECENCY" TO "SCIENCE"
  • POVERTY AND STARVATION
  • GNP AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN: LONG-TERM TRENDS IN U.S. REAL INCOMES
  • DISCRIMINATION AND POVERTY
  • WHAT INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS MEAN
  • THE CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH: SOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ETHICS
  • THE NOUVEAU RICHE AND UPWARD MOBILITY
  • ARE THE RICH GETTING RICHER? TRENDS IN U.S. WEALTH CONCENTRATION
  • INDEX
  • Backmatter

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