The undeserving rich : American beliefs about inequality, opportunity, and redistribution /
"Chapter One Introduction: Thinking about Income Inequality In the past decade, we have witnessed one sensational event after another connected in some way to rising income inequality. As I write, it is the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is not only demanding greater economic and social equ...
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Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: thinking about income inequality; 2. Beyond the opposition between opportunity and inequality: theories of beliefs about inequality from the nineteenth century to the present; 3. The emergence of a new social issue: media coverage of income inequality and social class in the United States, 1980-2010; 4. American beliefs about income inequality: what, when, who, and why; 5. Why do Americans care about income inequality? The role of opportunity; 6. Social policy preferences in the era of rising inequality; 7. Conclusion: a new era of beliefs about inequality.