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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900
Author: A List of Books on Social Reform in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Inequality in Canada
Author: Eric W. SagerPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228005965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
In Inequality in Canada Eric Sager considers one of the defining – but hardest to define – ideas of our era and traces its different meanings and contexts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sager shows how the idea of inequality arose in the long evolution in Britain and the United States from classical economics to the emerging welfare economics of the twentieth century. Within this transatlantic frame, inequality took a distinct form in Canada: different iterations of the idea appear in Protestant critiques of wealth, labour movements, farmer-progressive politics, the social gospel, social Catholicism in Quebec, English-Canadian political economy, and political and intellectual justifications of the social security state. A tradition of idealist thought persisted in the twentieth century, sustaining the idea of inequality despite deep silences among Canadian economists. Sager argues that inequality goes beyond the distribution of income and wealth: it is the idea that there are wide gaps between rich and poor, that the gaps are both an economic problem and a social injustice, and that when inequality appears, it is as a problem that can be either eliminated or reduced. It is precisely because inequality appears in different contexts, and because it changes, Sager reasons, that we can begin to perceive the contours and cleavages of inequality in our time. In our century, a political solution to inequality may rest on the recovery of an ethical ideal and egalitarian politics that have long preoccupied the history of Canadian thought.
The American Economy
Author: Stanley LebergottPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400870003
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Every economic system exists only to satisfy human wants, yet most systems fail to do so. Taking a keen look at the gap between goal and result, Stanley Lebergott appraises public policies relating to the U.S. distribution of income and wealth today. Part I shows that many programs have disappointed their proponents because certain basic assumptions were not understood. The author's new data suggest more realistic answers to much-debated questions: Are the rich getting richer? How much "upward mobility" exists? What approaches to poverty, starvation, and discrimination are practical today? In Part II, size distributions are derived for wealth in 1970, for income in 1900, and for white and non-white income for the period 1900-1970. These data include new estimates for key items in the standard of living since 1900, with detail on services that have dominated the "postindustrial" economy. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Monthly bulletin of books added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Biennial Report
Author: State Library of IowaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Legislative Documents
Author: IowaPublisher:
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
Outlines of Nineteenth Century History
Author: Philip Van Ness MyersPublisher:
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Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Economic History of the United States
Author: Ernest Ludlow BogartPublisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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