The New Inequality: Creating Solutions for Poor America: 1 (New Democracy Forum) - Softcover

Freeman, Richard

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9780807044353: The New Inequality: Creating Solutions for Poor America: 1 (New Democracy Forum)

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ISBN 10: 0807044350 ISBN 13: 9780807044353

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1999

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Harvard economist Richard B. Freeman argues that it is now time to stop analyzing the causes and consequences of inequality and concentrate on doing something about it. He also offers real solutions: Raise the income of the working class, reinvest in cities, and reenergize democratic institutions through the encouragement of local citizen organizations. Responding essays by distinguished scholars and activists - James Tobin, Heidi Hartmann, Michael Piore, Frances Fox Piven, James Heckman, Ernesto Cortes, Jr., and Paul R. Krugman - heed and add depth to Freeman's call.

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'Beacon kicks off its New Democracy Forum series with a lively debate on tactics to reverse the two-decade trend toward a two-tiered society in the U.S. Provocative ideas, well worth debating.' --Booklist (January, 1999)

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New Democracy Forum--About the Series
The New Democracy Forum is a series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns.

The series editors, Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, aim to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious conventional politics. The Forum provides a non-partisan, intellectually open atmosphere in which scholars, policymakers, and activists offer concrete proposals and critical responses. The brief format and modest price of these volumes are designed to ensure wide circulation and provoke debate throughout our communities, universities, and government.

"One of the few places today where serious discussion on our political alternatives is flourishing. An antidote to complacence and conventional wisdom, New Democracy Forum offers hope of revitalizing American political debate." --Michael Sandel, author of Democracy's Discontent

"New Democracy Forum operates at a level of literacy and responsibility which is all too rare in our time." --John Kenneth Galbraith

"New Democracy Forum is both lively and serious about ideas and politics. It manages to convey the sense that there are things to discuss, and the discussion is actually there." --Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate in Economics

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