The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite 0735221995, 9780735221994

Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class 9780520957435

With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperi

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Class Counts : Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class 9780742573727, 9780742547414

Class counts. Class differences and class warfare have existed since the beginning of western civilization, but the gap

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Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class [1 ed.] 0520251881, 9780520251885

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America's Inequality Trap 9780226665641

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at leas

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The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis 9780262369015, 2021033955, 026236901X

How parents have been set up to fail, and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a fair and prosperous society

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Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries 9780804786751

This volume presents cross-nationally comparative evidence on income inequality trends, women's employment and its

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Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and Inequality 9780199491070

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The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health 9781479801909

An important analysis of the difference class makes in reproductive health choices Can you run a marathon, drink coffee

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Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class 9780804780582

Broke explores the consequences of recent unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing underm

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The Inequality Trap: Fighting Capitalism Instead of Poverty 9781442624948

Explaining the complexities of modern economics in a clear, accessible style, The Inequality Trap is the must-read rejoi

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