The Wealth Inequality Reader (4th edition)

Edited by Linda Pinkow, Sam Pizzigati, and the Dollars & Sense collective

The Wealth Inequality Reader is an essential guide to wealth and poverty in the United States and globally. The fourth edition features the latest statistics on wealth and inequality, analysis of the role of wealth inequality in the current economic crisis, and new strategies for change.

A lively, thought-provoking supplement for classes in economic distribution, inequality, social problems, political economy, economic geography, and other disciplines, this book is a must-have for both activists and scholars.

Edited by Linda Pinkow, Sam Pizzigati, and the Dollars & Sense Collective, with a new preface by Chuck Collins.

Contributors include: Randy Albelda, Sylvia Allegretto, Gar Alperovitz, Peter Barnes, James Cypher, Howard Karger, Meizhu Lui, Arthur MacEwan, Richard D. Wolff, and many others.

Praise for The Wealth Inequality Reader:

"The Wealth Inequality Reader is a wonderful resource and a marvelous teaching tool. It should be required reading for students of economics and politics. Indeed, it should be required reading for anyone who aspires to understand the basics of the US economy. I recommend it with enthusiasm." —TIM KOECHLIN, Vassar College

"My students in Social Inequality were pleasantly surprised at The Wealth Inequality Reader. Most were expecting dry and dusty traditional texts. They were also impressed with the timeliness of the articles, and the emphasis on wealth, rather than income."  — ROBERT E. PARKER, University of Nevada–Las Vegas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction: Wealth Inequality by the Numbers
  • The Wealth Pie
  • What Is Wealth?
  • The Super-Rich
  • The Owning Class
  • The Median and Its Variance
  • The Wealthless
  • The Squeezed Middle
  • Class Mobility
  • The Owning Class
  • The Racial Wealth Gap
  • Women's Wealth
  • World Wide Wealth
    
    
• Section I: The Causes of Inequality
  • Inequality, Power, and Ideology
    Arthur MacEwan
  • The Undeserving Rich
    Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly
  • Have the Rich Won?
    Sam Pizzigati
  • How the Rules Got Rigged
    Chuck Collins
  • Nearly $2 Trillion Purloined from U.S. Workers in 2009
    James M. Cypher
  • Corporate Profits Leak Through Loopholes
    John Miller
  • Property: Who Has a Right to What and Why?
    Arthur MacEwan
  • The Homeownership Myth
    Howard Karger
  • Persistent and Pernicious: The Racial Wealth Gap
    Meizhu Lui
  • Women and Wealth: A Primer
    Amy Gluckman
  • Different Anti-Poverty Programs, Same Single-Mother Poverty
    Randy Albelda
  • Capitalism Hits the Fan
    Rick Wolff
    
    
• Section II: The Consequences of Inequality
  • Slicing Up at the Long Barbeque
    James M. Cypher
  • Geese, Golden Eggs, and Traps: Why Inequality Is Bad for the Economy
    Chris Tilly
  • Madison Avenue Declares "Mass Affluence" Over
    Sam Pizzigati
  • Tax Cuts and Economic Growth
    Arthur MacEwan
  • Taxes and Transparency: Our Opaque Opulent
    Sam Pizzigati
  • Who Gets Those Trillions?
    Arthur MacEwan
  • The Great Recession in Black Wealth
    Jeannette Wicks-Lim
  • Inequality: Bad for Your Health
    An Interview with Ichiro Kawachi
  • Swedes, Equality, and Suicides
    Sam Pizzigati
    
    
• Section III: Strategies for Change
  • Tax Wealth: Great Political Economists and Andrew Carnegie Agree
    John Miller
  • Tax Wealth to Broaden Wealth
    Chuck Collins and Dedrick Muhammad
  • A New WPA?
    Ryan A. Dodd
  • How High Could the Minimum Wage Go?
    Jeannette Wicks–Lim
  • A Bold New Labor Call for a "Maximum Wage"
    Sam Pizzigati
  • Bail Out the Safety Net
    Randy Albelda
  • Closing the Racial Wealth Gap for the Next Generation
    Meizhu Lui
  • The Land Trust Solution
    Michelle Sheehan
  • No More Savings! The Case for Social Wealth
    Ellen Frank
  • Sharing the Wealth of the Commons
    Peter Barnes
  • An Anti-Poverty Authority Changes His Mind
    Sam Pizzigati
  • The 99%, the 1%, and Class Struggle
    Alejandro Reuss
  • Turning Towards Solutions
    Richard D. Wolff
  • Why Greater Equality Strengthens Society
    Sam Pizzigati

Edition: 4th
Date of publication: December 2012
ISBN: 978-1-939402-00-4
Pages: 202
Price: $41.50