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020 _a9781139225687 (ebook)
020 _z9781107027237 (hardback)
020 _z9781107699823 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aHC110.I5
_bM374 2013
082 0 0 _a339.2/20973
_223
100 1 _aMcCall, Leslie,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Undeserving Rich :
_bAmerican Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution /
_cLeslie McCall.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (320 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aIt is widely assumed that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies. Leslie McCall contends that such assumptions are based on both incomplete survey data and economic conditions of the past and not present. In fact, Americans have desired less inequality for decades, and McCall's book explains why. Americans become most concerned about inequality in times of inequitable growth, when they view the rich as prospering while opportunities for good jobs, fair pay and high quality education are restricted for everyone else. As a result, they favor policies to expand opportunity and redistribute earnings in the workplace, reducing inequality in the market rather than redistributing income after the fact with tax and spending policies. This book resolves the paradox of how Americans can express little enthusiasm for welfare state policies and still yearn for a more equitable society, and forwards a new model of preferences about income inequality rooted in labor market opportunities rather than welfare state policies.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107027237
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139225687
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c37272
_d37272