The crisis of the middle-class constitution : why economic inequality threatens our republic / Ganesh Sitaraman.
2017
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Author
Title
The crisis of the middle-class constitution : why economic inequality threatens our republic / Ganesh Sitaraman.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Copyright
©2017
Call Number
KF4749 .S58 2017
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780451493910 hardcover
0451493915 hardcover
9780451493927 (ebook)
0451493915 hardcover
9780451493927 (ebook)
Description
vi, 423 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)951465462
Summary
"Argues that America's strong and sizable middle class is actually embedded in the framework of the nation's government and its founding document and discusses the necessity of taking equality-establishing measures,"--NoveList.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-402) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Sitaraman, Ganesh. Crisis of the middle class constitution. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017 9780451493927 (OCoLC)951557407
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Why economic inequality threatens our Republic
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Introduction
3
pt. I
RADICALISM OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
ch. One
From Athens to America: The Two Traditions
21
ch. Two
America's Middle-Class Constitution
59
pt. II
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS CONSTITUTION
ch. Three
Emergence of the Plutocracy
111
ch. Four
Search for Solutions
161
pt. III
CRISIS OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS CONSTITUTION
ch. Five
How Economic Inequality Threatens the Republic
223
ch. Six
Future of the Middle-Class Constitution
274
Acknowledgments
303
Notes
307
Index
403