Ray Marshall

Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America (eBook, ePUB)

The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America

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Produktbeschreibung

To what extent are major social and political problems caused by basic income and unemployment trends? Is it possible to restore the kind of broadly shared prosperity the U.S. once experienced before the early 1970s? Some of the top economists of our time address these critical questions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317476177
• Artikelnr.: 42900834

Autorenporträt

Marshall, Ray

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Preface: Restoring Broadly Shared Prosperity
Acknowledgments
Overview: Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America
PART I. INTRODUCTION: OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA
1. Recent Trends in the Distribution of Household Wealth
2. The Effects of Economic Growth and Inequality on Opportunity
3. Economic Outcomes and Mental Health
4. One More Chance: Cities in the Twenty-first Century Economy
5. Jobless Ghettos: The Social Implications of the Disappearance of Work in Segregated Neighborhoods
6. The Labor Market for Young African-American Men: Recent Trends
Causes
and Implications
7. Including Latinos in Broadly Shared Prosperity
8. Crime and Prosperity: Neighborhood Explanations for Change in Crime Rates
9. Closing the Gap: Women's Economic P rogress and Future Prospects
PART II. FORCES FOR CHANGE: TECHNOLOGY
GLOBALIZATION
AND DEMOGRAPHICS
10. The Workplace Implications of Global Technological Advance
11. The Networked Economy
12. Globalization of Financial Markets
13. Why the Baby-Bust Cohorts Haven't Boomed Yet: A Re-Examination of Cohort Effects on Wage Inequality in the United States
14. Social and Political Impacts of Recent Trends in U.S. Immigration
PART III. POLICIES TO RESTORE SHARED PROSPERITY
A. National and International Economic Policy
15. What Can Macro-Policy Do?
16. Budgets and Taxes
17. Social Security: A New Deal Program for the Twenty-first Century
18. Pension Policies to Maintain Workers' Access to Retirement
19. Public Investment for a Twenty-first Century Economy
20. Trade and Inequality
B. Education
21. Schooling
Learning
and Economic Growth
22. How the United States Can Develop a World-Class Education System
23. Transition from School to Work: Black
Hispanic
and White Men in the 1980s
C. Labor Market Policies
24. Wages and the Service Sector
25. A Thirty-Five-Year Perspective on Workforce Development Programs
26. Public Labor Market Policies for the Twenty-first Century
27. Public Service Employment: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
28. Public Service Employment: Lessons from U.S. Experience in the 1970s
29. Employer Training: The High Road
the Low Road
and the Muddy Middle Path
D. Health Care
30. Health Care for Low-Income People
E. Industrial Relations
31. Reconstructing the Social Contract in Employment Relations
32. Employee Involvement and Representation: Economic and Policy Implications
F. Corporate Governance
33. Financial Market Barriers to High-Performance Work Organizations
34. Restoring Broadly Shared Prosperity: A Business Perspective
G. Communities
Regions
and Rural and Urban Areas
35. Justice at the Gates of the City: A Model for Shared Prosperity
36. Access to Capital and Inner-City Revitalization: Urban Policy After Proposition
37. The U.S. Rural Economy in Historical and Global Context
38. Prosperity and Inequality Among America's Cities and Regions
List of Contributors
Index