What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice

by Jennifer L. Hochschild

Book Overview

The search for equality has been an enduring one in the United States. Yet there has been little significant change in the distribution of wealth over the generations, while the political ideology of socialism has been rejected outright by most people. In a sensitive rendering of data, Jennifer Hochschild discovers that it is the nonrich themselves who do not support the downward redistribution of wealth.

Using a long questionnaire and in-depth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674950879
• ISBN13: 9780674950870
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"