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1 - Decades of Income Inequality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2020

Lance Taylor
Affiliation:
New School for Social Research, New York
Özlem Ömer
Affiliation:
Haci Bektas Veli University, Turkey
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Summary

Economic inequality in the United States began an upward march around 1970. As of 2019, the pace may have slowed but any changes were far from reversing almost five decades of distributional deterioration. Inequality’s ascent can be tracked from two angles – income and wealth. This chapter will look at rising income disparity across households. Chapter 2 shows how income differences showed up macroeconomically. Chapter 3 addresses the distribution of wealth at the macroeconomic and household levels, and Chapter 4 examines the sectoral structure of production.

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Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump
Market Power, Wage Repression, Asset Price Inflation, and Industrial Decline
, pp. 10 - 25
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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