Format:
xiv, 471 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781316516362
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9781009014861
Content:
"Since the 1980s, income concentration has increased dramatically, with the top 1% increasing their share from 10.7% in 1980 to 20.2% in 2014 (an 89% increase), and the top 0.01% income share increasing even more - by approximately 230%. Before the turn of the 21st century, scholars seeking to explain rising inequality emphasized structural economic change and demographics, focusing on factors such as deindustrialization, globalization, aging, union decline, and skill-biased technological change (Alderson and Nielsen 2002; Berman et al. 1998; Bound and Johnson 1992; Danziger and Gottschalk 1995; Goldin and Katz 2008). In this work, politics and policy played at most a peripheral role in explaining the ebb and flow of American inequality. But newer scholarship has given politics a more central place in our understanding of income disparity"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 419-471
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009029841
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The American political economy Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ISBN 9781009029841
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
USA
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Politische Ökonomie
DOI:
10.1017/9781009029841
Author information:
Thelen, Kathleen Ann 1956-
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