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Book Title
Class War?: What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
Genre
Business & Money
Topic
Economics
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Intended Audience
Adult
Inscribed
NO
ISBN
9780226644554

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226644553
ISBN-13
9780226644554
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70944215

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
160 Pages
Publication Name
Class War? : What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
Language
English
Subject
Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, General, American Government / General
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Author
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Benjamin I. Page
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0 in
Item Weight
8.7 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-043595
Reviews
"This is a small book with very big aims. . . . It should be read . . . as a polemic, as a challenge, as a call to arms."-- Times Higher Education Supplement, Helps to clarify why alarmist denunciations of higher taxation and (shudder!) 'redistribution of the wealth' just won't cut it. The publication of Class War? What Americans Really Think About Economic Inequality by Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs could not be better timed., ... succeeds in throwing off the shackles of academic discourse and speaking directly to readers, but its effectiveness nevertheless rests on meticulous analysis of survey data and opinion polling on economic equality., Page and Jacobs offer an excellent synthesis of Americans' majority views, demonstrating, at least in the short term, broad agreement on an active government role in reducing inequality, within the context of providing opportunity in a free-market economy.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
339.2/20973
Table Of Content
Preface Chapter 1. No Class War Chapter 2. Caring about Economic Inequality Chapter 3. Looking to Government for Help Chapter 4. Paying the Bill Chapter 5. Will Policy Makers Respond? Appendix: The Inequality Survey Notes Index
Synopsis
Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America's fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs contend, ring false. In Class War? they present compelling evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise and practical government programs to distribute wealth more equitably. At every income level and in both major political parties, majorities embrace conservative egalitarianism-a philosophy that prizes individualism and self-reliance as well as public intervention to help Americans pursue these ideals on a level playing field. Drawing on hundreds of opinion studies spanning more than seventy years, including a new comprehensive survey, Page and Jacobs reveal that this worldview translates to broad support for policies aimed at narrowing the gap between rich and poor and creating genuine opportunity for all. They find, for example, that across economic, geographical, and ideological lines, most Americans support higher minimum wages, improved public education, wider access to universal health insurance coverage, and the use of tax dollars to fund these programs. In this surprising and heartening assessment, Page and Jacobs provide our new administration with a popular mandate to combat the economic inequity that plagues our nation., Recent battles in Washington over how to fix America's fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that economic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs contend, ring false. In Class War? they present compelling evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise and practical government programs to distribute wealth more equitably. At every income level and in both major political parties, majorities embrace conservative egalitarianism--a philosophy that prizes individualism and self-reliance as well as public intervention to help Americans pursue these ideals on a level playing field. Drawing on hundreds of opinion studies spanning more than seventy years, including a new comprehensive survey, Page and Jacobs reveal that this worldview translates to broad support for policies aimed at narrowing the gap between rich and poor and creating genuine opportunity for all. They find, for example, that across economic, geographical, and ideological lines, most Americans support higher minimum wages, improved public education, wider access to universal health insurance coverage, and the use of tax dollars to fund these programs. In this surprising and heartening assessment, Page and Jacobs provide our new administration with a popular mandate to combat the economic inequity that plagues our nation.
LC Classification Number
HC110.I5P344 2009

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