Occupy the Future.

Intro -- Contents -- Part I. Introduction -- Occupy the Future -- Part II. The Empirical and Normative Foundation -- Economic Inequality in the United States: An Occupy-Inspired Primer -- How Much Inequality Is There? -- Trends In Inequality -- Cross-National Comparisons -- The Sources of Inequality -- Conclusions -- Ethics and Inequality -- Part III. The Sources of the Takeoff -- Increasing Income Inequality: Economics and Institutional Ethics -- Why Is There So Much Poverty? -- Part IV. Who Bears the Brunt of the Takeoff? -- Education and Inequality -- The Double Binds of Economic and Racial Inequality -- Gender and Economic Inequality -- Part V. Inequality, Politics, and Democracy -- Restarting History -- Political Remedies to Economic Inequality -- State Millionaire Taxes -- Inequality and Its Discontents -- Fifty States: Room for Reform -- No Flight of the Millionaires -- Top One Percent Taxes and Sound State Fiscal Policy -- The Politics of Occupy: Now and Looking Ahead -- Part VI. The Social Costs of Inequality -- Capitalism Versus the Environment -- The Rising Toll of Inequality on Health Care and Health Status -- Part VII. Inequality and Culture -- Occupy Your Imagination -- What if We Occupied Language? -- Thinking Big -- About the Contributors -- Notes -- Boston Review Books.

How the Occupy movement has challenged the gap between American principles and American practice--and how we can realize our most cherished ideals.

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