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The Occupy Wall Street movement has ignited new questions about the relationship between democracy and equality in the United States. Are we also entering a moment in history in which the disjuncture between our principles and our institutions is cast into especially sharp relief? Do new development...
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Occupy Wall Street movement has ignited new questions about the relationship between democracy and equality in the United States. Are we also entering a moment in history in which the disjuncture between our principles and our institutions is cast into especially sharp relief? Do new developments--most notably the rise of extreme inequality--offer new threats to the realization of our most cherished principles? Can we build an open, democratic, and successful movement to realize our ideals? Occupy the Future offers informed and opinionated essays that address these questions. The writers--including Nobel Laureate in Economics Kenneth Arrow and bestselling authors Paul and Anne Ehrlich--lay out what our country's principles are, whether we're living up to them, and what can be done to bring our institutions into better alignment with them. |
| Carrier Form: | 280 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-280). |
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9780262018401 (hbk. : alk. paper) : 0262018403 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | HC110 |
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F171.26 F817.123 |
| Call Number: | F817.123/O157 |
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Occupy the future / The empirical and normative foundation. Economic inequality in the United States: an occupy-inspired primer / Ethics and inequality / The sources of the takeoff. Increasing income inequality: economics and institutional ethics / Why is there so much poverty? / Who bears the brunt of the takeoff? Education and inequality / The double binds of economic and racial inequality / Gender and economic inequality / Inequality, politics, and democracy. Restarting history / Political remedies to economic inequality / State millionaire taxes / The politics of Occupy: now and looking ahead / The social costs of inequality. Capitalism versus the environment / The rising toll of inequality on health care and health status / Inequality and culture. Occupy your imaginationn / What if we occupied language? / Thinking big / |