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The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It (Hardcover) by Timothy Noah
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from barlow304
This book began life as a series of articles for Slate, the online magazine. The author carefully explains the "Great Convergence", a period when income inequality was declining in the US, then goes on to explore the causes, the implications, and the possible cures of the "Great Divergence", whic...
from rivkat
Things I learned: FDR proposed that "no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000." Horatio Alger became a writer after being forced out of the pulpit for molesting a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old (both boys). Things I didn't: corporate compens...
from MichaelDC
This is a great overview of income disparity in the United States. Noah covers the subject well, including talking about income in the context of racial minorities' and women's rights. The chapters are all relatively short, conversational but never superficial or argumentative in tone, and highly...
from lindap69
another is the litany of books about where we are now as a country that is not particularly comforting!
from Sullywriter
I found this book most interesting for Noah's discussions of economic history to put contemporary issues in context. Most impressive is the argument he presents about the direct correlation between the rise of strong labor unions and the growth of the middle class, and the obvious relationship be...
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