The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America

by Michael J. Thompson

Book Overview

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231140754
• ISBN13: 9780231140751
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher