
Inequality by Design
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Not only does the wealth of individuals' parents shape their chances for a good life, so do national policies ranging from labor laws to investments in education to tax deductions. The authors explore the ways that America--the most economically unequal society in the industrialized world--unevenly distributes rewards through regulation of the market, taxes, and government spending. It attacks the myth that inequality fosters economic growth, that reducing economic inequality requires enormous welfare expenditures, and that there is little we can do to alter the extent of inequality. It also attacks the injurious myth of innate racial inequality, presenting powerful evidence that racial differences in achievement are the consequences, not the causes, of social inequality. By refusing to blame inequality on an unchangeable human nature and an inexorable market--an excuse that leads to resignation and passivity--Inequality by Design shows how we can advance policies that widen opportunity for all.
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Persons
Following in Father's Footsteps; Martín Sánchez Jankowski's
City Bound and Islands in the Street; Samuel R. Luca's, a pending book on the effects of race and sex discrimination since 1940; Ann Swindler's,
Organization without Authority and Habitats of the Heart; and Kim Voss's,
The Making of American Exceptionalism.
Content
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Why Inequality?
- Chapter 2: Understanding "Intelligence
- Chapter 3: But Is It Intelligence?
- Chapter 4: Who Wins? Who Loses?
- Chapter 5: The Rewards of the Game: Systems of Inequality
- Chapter 6: How Unequal? America's Invisible Policy Choices
- Chapter 7: Enriching Intelligence: More Policy Choices
- Chapter 8: Race, Ethnicity, and Intelligence
- Chapter 9: Confronting Inequality in America: The Power of Public Investment
- Appendix 1: Summary of The Bell Curve
- Appendix 2: Statistical Analysis for Chapter 4
- Notes
- References
- Index
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