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Top Heavy : the Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It, Second Edition ((Rev)02 Edition)

by Edward N. Wolff

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A work that sparked widespread controversy when it was first published, Top Heavy is acclaimed economist Edward N. Wolff's eloquent presentation of the facts of wealth inequality in the United States. In a completely revised and updated edition of the book the Boston Review hailed as "the leading contemporary study of the distribution of wealth", Wolff reveals the unprecedented rise in recent years of wealth inequality and shows how it is one of the major forces challenging democracy and economic opportunity in America.<P>Wolff vividly illustrates how the gap between the haves and the have-nots in terms of wealth is greater now than at any time since 1929, immediately preceding the Great Depression. As the nation considers trillion-dollar tax cuts and the abolishment of the estate tax, Top Heavy takes a sobering look at how the wealth of the top 1% of households continues its heartstopping expansion while the current distribution of wealth in America invites the surprisingly apt comparison with the class-dominated societies of nineteenth-century Europe.<P>Top Heavy will continue to be an essential reference point in any discussion of what an economically healthy America might look like.

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Hailed in the Boston Review as "the leading contemporary study of the distribution of wealth in the United States and the recent explosion in wealth inequality," Top Heavy provides the clearest picture available of the growing gap between rich and poor in America, and a compelling proposal to help correct it.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:
9781565846654
Foreword:
Leone, Richard C.
Author:
Century Foundation
Foreword by:
Leone, Richard C.
Foreword:
Leone, Richard C.
Author:
Wolff, Edward N.
Author:
Leone, Richard C.
Publisher:
New Press
Location:
New York
Subject:
United states
Subject:
U.S. Government
Subject:
Personal Finance - Taxation
Subject:
Economic Conditions
Subject:
Income distribution
Subject:
Wealth tax.
Subject:
Government - U.S. Government
Subject:
Income distribution -- United States.
Subject:
Wealth tax -- United States.
Subject:
Politics-United States Politics
Subject:
Politics - General
Edition Description:
Updated and expanded ed.
Series Volume:
499
Publication Date:
20020231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
116
Dimensions:
8.32x5.50x.36 in. .34 lbs.

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