The New Gilded Age

by Grusky, David B.; Kricheli-katz, Tamar

• ISBN13: 9780804759366
• ISBN10: 0804759367
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-09
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality: Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty? Is inequality a necessary evil that's the best way available to motivate economic action and increase total output? Can we retain a meaningful democracy even when extreme inequality allows the rich to purchase political privilege? Is the recent stalling out of long-term declines in gender inequality a historic reversal that presages a new gender order? How are racial and ethnic inequalities likely to evolve as minority populations grow ever larger, as intermarriage increases, and as new forms of immigration unfold? Leading public intellectuals debate these questions in a no-holds-barred exploration of our New Gilded Age.

Author Biography

David B. Grusky is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. He is coauthor of The Inequality Puzzle (2010) and coeditor of The Great Recession (2011) and The Inequality Reader (2011). Tamar Kricheli-Katz is Assistant Professor in the Buchman Faculty of Law and in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Poverty and Inequality in a New World	p. 1
Do We Have an Obligation to Eliminate Poverty?
Rich and Poor in the World Community	p. 19
Global Needs and Special Relationships	p. 39
How Much Inequality Do We Need? (Some) Inequality Is Good for You	p. 63
Inequality and Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective	p. 88
Is There a Political Solution to Rising Inequality?
Rising Inequality and American Politics	p. 115
Unequal Democracy in America: The Long View	p. 131
Why is There a Gender Gap in Pay?
A Human Capital Account of the Gender Pay Gap	p. 161
The Sources of the Gender Pay Gap	p. 189
The Future of Race and Ethnicity
A Dream Deferred: Toward the U.S. Racial Future	p. 211
Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy	p. 230
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 287
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