The Society of Equals

by Pierre Rosanvallon

Book Overview

Since the 1980s, society's wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon--the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. And just as significant as the social and economic factors driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of equality itself. An ambitious transatlantic history of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674724593
• ISBN13: 9780674724594
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.5"