Wealth and Want
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Wealth and Want

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Wealth and Want

About this book

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 recognition.

Originally published in 1976.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Can American Capitalism End Poverty?
  5. On Confiscation
  6. Per Capita Income and the Angel of the Lord
  7. The Submerged Tenth: Color and Ethnic Group Incomes, 1900-1970
  8. A Century of Guaranteed Income in the U.S.
  9. The Minimum Budget: From "Decency" to "Science"
  10. Poverty and Starvation
  11. GNP and the Garden of Eden
  12. Discrimination and Poverty
  13. What Income Distributions Mean
  14. The Concentration of Wealth: Some Economic Aspects of Ethics
  15. The Nouveau Riche and Upward Mobility
  16. Are the Rich Getting Richer? Trends in U.S. Wealth Concentration
  17. Index