The price of inequality

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Paperback, 2013

Call number

305.50973

Genres

Publication

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Description

Examines how the wealthy classes have contributed to growing inequality in society and explains how the quest to increase wealth has hindered the country's economic growth as well as its efforts to solve its most pressing economic problems.

Subjects

Equality united States
Income distribution United States. Social aspects
United States Economic conditions 21st century
United States social conditions 21st century

Awards

Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

DDC/MDS

305.50973

Original publication date

2012-06-11

Physical description

lxiv, 523 p.; 21 cm

ISBN

9780393345063

Barcode

414

Language

English

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