Wealth and Want /

Wealth and Want / / Stanley Lebergott.

There exist eight reliable ways to increase poverty and the United States is now pursuing seven of them, according to Lebergott. His provocative examination of income and wealth in this country reveals the impossibility of ending poverty permanently without changing American capitalism beyond recogn...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Lebergott, Stanley,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1976
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1723
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • CAN AMERICAN CAPITALISM END POVERTY?
  • ON CONFISCATION
  • THE SUBMERGED TENTH: COLOR AND ETHNIC GROUP INCOMES, 1900-1970
  • A CENTURY OF GUARANTEED INCOME IN THE U.S.
  • THE MINIMUM BUDGET: FROM "DECENCY" TO "SCIENCE"
  • POVERTY AND STARVATION
  • GNP AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN: LONG-TERM TRENDS IN U.S. REAL INCOMES
  • DISCRIMINATION AND POVERTY
  • WHAT INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS MEAN
  • THE CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH: SOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ETHICS
  • THE NOUVEAU RICHE AND UPWARD MOBILITY
  • ARE THE RICH GETTING RICHER? TRENDS IN U.S. WEALTH CONCENTRATION
  • INDEX
  • Backmatter

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