The Pursuit Of Inequality
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The Pursuit Of Inequality
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Author : Philip Green
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1981
The Pursuit Of Inequality written by Philip Green and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Social Science categories.
A brilliant egalitarian refutation of the whole range of popular arguments--genetic, racial, sexual, political, economic, philosophical--promoting social inequality. Green lays bare the errors, speciousness, and fraudulence of assaults on the egalitarian ideal ranging from the biological and genetic theorizing of Arthur Jensen and Richard Herrnstein to the social arguments of Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer; from the economic writings of Milton Friedman to the philosophical arguments of Robert Nozick and the sexual inegalitarianism of George Gilder and Steven Goldberg.
The Pursuit Of Equality In The West
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Author : Aldo Schiavone
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-05
The Pursuit Of Equality In The West written by Aldo Schiavone and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-05 with Political Science categories.
One of the world’s foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when its absence threatens democracies everywhere. How much equality does democracy need to survive? Political thinkers have wrestled with that question for millennia. Aristotle argued that some are born to command and others to obey. Antiphon believed that men, at least, were born equal. Later the Romans upended the debate by asking whether citizens were equals not in ruling but in standing before the law. Aldo Schiavone guides us through these and other historical thickets, from the first democracy to the present day, seeking solutions to the enduring tension between democracy and inequality. Turning from Antiquity to the modern world, Schiavone shows how the American and the French revolutions attempted to settle old debates, introducing a new way of thinking about equality. Both the French revolutionaries and the American colonists sought democracy and equality together, but the European tradition (British Labour, Russian and Eastern European Marxists, and Northern European social democrats) saw formal equality—equality before the law—as a means of obtaining economic equality. The American model, in contrast, adopted formal equality while setting aside the goal of economic equality. The Pursuit of Equality in the West argues that the United States and European models were compatible with industrial-age democracy, but neither suffices in the face of today’s technological revolution. Opposing both atomization and the obsolete myths of the collective, Schiavone thinks equality anew, proposing a model founded on neither individualism nor the erasure of the individual but rather on the universality of the impersonal human, which coexists with the sea of differences that makes each of us unique.
In Pursuit Of Inequality
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Author : B. Wootton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
In Pursuit Of Inequality written by B. Wootton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
Adam Smith S Equality And The Pursuit Of Happiness
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Author : John E. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-05
Adam Smith S Equality And The Pursuit Of Happiness written by John E. Hill and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-05 with Political Science categories.
This book examines Adam Smith’s main principles in Wealth of Nations as the basis for effective policymaking. Adam Smith wanted to increase happiness through this formula for a good life: equality, liberty, and justice. Free market interpretations of Smith, the book argues, grossly misrepresent his thought, emphasizing only liberty and not also equality and justice. This book suggests policies that combine all three in order for happiness to be maximized.
Happiness For All
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Author : Carol Graham
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-14
Happiness For All written by Carol Graham and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with Business & Economics categories.
The Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness equally available to everyone in America today? How about elsewhere in the world? Carol Graham draws on cutting-edge research linking income inequality with well-being to show how the widening prosperity gap has led to rising inequality in people's beliefs, hopes, and aspirations. For the United States and other developed countries, the high costs of being poor are most evident not in material deprivation but rather in stress, insecurity, and lack of hope. The result is an optimism gap between rich and poor that, if left unchecked, could lead to an increasingly divided society. Graham reveals how people who do not believe in their own futures are unlikely to invest in them, and how the consequences can range from job instability and poor education to greater mortality rates, failed marriages, and higher rates of incarceration. She describes how the optimism gap is reflected in the very words people use--the wealthy use words that reflect knowledge acquisition and healthy behaviors, while the words of the poor reflect desperation, short-term outlooks, and patchwork solutions. She also explains why the least optimistic people in America are poor whites, not poor blacks or Hispanics. Happiness for All? highlights the importance of well-being measures in identifying and monitoring trends in life satisfaction and optimism--and misery and despair--and demonstrates how hope and happiness can lead to improved economic outcomes.
Why Does Inequality Matter
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Author : Thomas Scanlon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Why Does Inequality Matter written by Thomas Scanlon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Equality categories.
Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. He considers the nature and importance of equality of opportunity, whether the pursuit of greater equality involves objectionable interference with individual liberty, and whether the rich can be said to deserve their greater rewards.
American Democracy And The Pursuit Of Equality
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Author : Merlin Chowkwanyun
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-01-08
American Democracy And The Pursuit Of Equality written by Merlin Chowkwanyun and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-08 with Education categories.
This collection assembles some of the country s foremost social scientists in one volume. It contains diverse investigations of metropolitan transformation, recent education policy, the (in)justice of disaster relief, the politics of aesthetics and design, immigration, the mass media, social movements, and the practice of social science itself, among others. Whatever their subjects, the writers investigate the promise and constraints of democratic practice in a time of disturbing growth in inequality and political disempowerment. Although they at times differ from one another, more often, they challenge popular received wisdom on a number of these topics. Cumulatively, the volume amounts to a critical sociological excavation of the United States from its leading social critics that will prove useful to specialists and general readers alike."
Equal Is Unfair
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Author : Don Watkins
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2016-03-29
Equal Is Unfair written by Don Watkins and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Business & Economics categories.
We’ve all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we’re told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage. But what if that narrative is wrong? What if the real threat to the American Dream isn’t rising income inequality—but an all-out war on success? In Equal is Unfair, a timely and thought-provoking work, Don Watkins and Yaron Brook reveal that almost everything we’ve been taught about inequality is wrong. You’ll discover: • why successful CEOs make so much money—and deserve to • how the minimum wage hurts the very people it claims to help • why middle-class stagnation is a myth • how the little-known history of Sweden reveals the dangers of forced equality • the disturbing philosophy behind Obama’s economic agenda. The critics of inequality are right about one thing: the American Dream is under attack. But instead of fighting to make America a place where anyone can achieve success, they are fighting to tear down those who already have. The real key to making America a freer, fairer, more prosperous nation is to protect and celebrate the pursuit of success—not pull down the high fliers in the name of equality.
Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Inequality
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Author : Steve Wunsch
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-03-05
Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Inequality written by Steve Wunsch and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-05 with Business & Economics categories.
In Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Inequality, I show how the freedoms of the English-speaking peoples led to prosperity through the ability of stock exchange founders to design and run their markets as they saw fit, without input or oversight from regulators. Did this result in rigging? Yes, it did. But their rigging created the paradigm that enabled London and New York to lead their countries and, ultimately, the world, toward the first glimmers of self-sufficiency and wealth for all. That paradigm, which I call the "do-it-yourself monopoly," first appeared tentatively around 1690 in London as forerunners of the London Stock Exchange, and then moved around 1790 to New York as forerunners of the New York Stock Exchange, but this time explicitly, as evidenced by such documents as the Buttonwood Agreement. As the D.I.Y. monopoly reached full flower with the robber barons in nineteenth century America, it underwrote a succession of the world's wealthiest men and the world's biggest businesses, as the United States became the world's greatest economic power. Today, the evident economic malaise of the wealthy western countries is traceable to their having abandoned the principles of freedom that made them wealthy, in particular with regard to how they design and run their capital markets. The collapse of the U.S. IPO market's ability to fund new technology companies and industries is examined in detail and seen as the clear consequence of this abandonment. And the rest of the west is following the U.S.'s lead. If markets had been run on the principles of modern regulators when they were forming, markets would not have formed in the first place. And since the exchanges were the essential triggers of the Industrial Revolution, blocking the exchanges would have prevented the Industrial Revolution from emerging, which would have meant that this extraordinary historical event that began lifting the world's people out of seemingly permanent and universal poverty, would not have happened, either. As demonstrated by my reexamination of some authoritative but overlooked historical works, the principles that pertained when the NYSE and LSE were forming are the key to understanding such mysteries as what triggered the Industrial Revolution in the first place, why it was originally only a British phenomenon, and why it eventually left Britain and settled in America. This chain of logic also shows that modern regulation would have prevented the emergence of the British Empire and the United States as dominant economic powers.
International Studies In Educational Inequality Theory And Policy
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Author : Richard Teese
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-06-03
International Studies In Educational Inequality Theory And Policy written by Richard Teese and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-03 with Education categories.
Inequality is a marked and persistent feature of education systems, both in the developed and the developing worlds. Major gaps in opportunity and in outcomes have become more critical than in the past, thanks to the knowledge economy and globalization. The pursuit of equity as a goal of public policy is examined in this book through a series of national case-studies. The book covers many different global contexts from the wealthiest to some of the poorest nations on earth. It therefore offers a broad range of different theoretical and methodological approaches, and brings together extensive international experience in equity policy.