Why Is Wealth White?
In: Southern cultures, Volume 28, Issue 4, p. 30-55
ISSN: 1534-1488
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In: Southern cultures, Volume 28, Issue 4, p. 30-55
ISSN: 1534-1488
In: Capitalism: a journal of history and economics, Volume 1, Issue 1, p. 92-165
ISSN: 2576-6406
In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Volume 64, Issue 3, p. 85-96
ISSN: 1946-0910
Introduction : the quest for an investors' democracy -- The problem with financial securities -- The "free and open market" responds -- "Be a stockholder in victory!" -- Mobilizing the financial nation -- The postwar struggle for the financial nation -- Swords into shares -- The corporate quest for shareholder democracy -- Finance joins the quest for shareholder democracy -- "The people's market" -- Epilogue : the enduring quest
In: Enterprise & society: the international journal of business history, Volume 9, Issue 4, p. 619-630
ISSN: 1467-2235
"When Wall Street met Main Street" recovers the lost history of the American investor and locates the origins of conservative belief in the ability of laissez-faire financialmarkets to provide economic security and justice for all. Bond and stock marketing by the federal government, corporations, and the financial industry is analyzed alongside emerging investor-centered theories of political economy and the relevant debates over economic reform. As early twentieth century securities marketers and their ideological allies promoted investment, they wrestled with the meaning of citizenship and democracy under industrial corporate capitalism. The ideas and institutions examined in this study endured the Crash of 1929, shaping the parameters of New Deal securities market regulation and sustaining opposition to modern liberalism until the present day.
In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Volume 68, Issue 2, p. 19-21
ISSN: 1946-0910
In: New labor forum: a journal of ideas, analysis and debate, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 29-38
ISSN: 1557-2978
In: Fordham Law Review, Volume 84, Issue 2517
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In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Volume 70, Issue 3, p. 17-26
ISSN: 1946-0910
In: Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
Inequality of income and wealth has skyrocketed since the 1970s. As the super-rich have grasped the vast majority of the gains from economic growth, labor's share of income has declined. The middle class has stagnated, and those at the bottom have become even worse off. Persistent structural discrimination on the basis of race and gender exacerbates these economic disparities.The Great Polarization brings together scholars from disparate fields to examine the causes and consequences of this dramatic rise in inequality. Contributors demonstrate that institutions, norms, policy, and political power—not the "natural" operation of the market—determine the distribution of wealth and income. The book underscores the role of ideas and ideologies, showing how neoclassical economics and related beliefs have functioned in public debates to justify inequality. Together, these essays bear out an inescapable conclusion: inequality is a choice. The rules of the economy have been rewritten to favor those at the top, entrenching the imbalances of power that widen the gap between the very rich and everyone else.Contributors reconsider the data on inequality, examine the policies that have led to this predicament, and outline potential ways forward. Using both theoretical and empirical analysis and drawing on the knowledge of experts in policy, political economy, economics, and other disciplines, The Great Polarization offers a kaleidoscopic view of the processes that have shaped today's stark hierarchies