Economic Inequality Suggested Readings by Topic

Economic Inequality Suggested Readings by Topic
Overview
Center for Popular Economics. (2014). Economics for the 99%. Retrieved from the Center for Popular Economics
website: http://www.populareconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/EconomicsForThe99pct2014.pdf.
Timeline and Narrative: http://www.populareconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Timeline_for_online.pdf.
Johnston, D.C. (Ed.) (2014). Divided: The perils of our growing inequality. New York: The New Press.
Mankiw, N.G. (2013). Defending the One Percent. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), 21–34. Retrieved from,
http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.3.21.
Milanovic, B. (2011). The haves and have-nots: A brief and idiosyncratic history of global inequality. New York:
Basic Books.
Democracy
Bonica, A., McCarty, N., Poole, K. T., & Rosenthal, H. (2013). Why Hasn’t Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality?.
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), 103–124. Retrieved from,
http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.3.103.
Page, B., Bartels, L. & Seawright, J. (2013) Democracy and the Political Preferences of Wealthy Americans.
Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 11/No. 1.
http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~jnd260/cab/CAB2012%20-%20Page1.pdf.
Pew Research Center for People & the Press. (2014). Most See Inequality Growing but Partisans Differ Over
Solutions. Retrieved from The Pew Research Center Online:
http://www.people-press.org/2014/01/23/most-see-inequality-growing-but-partisans-differ-over-solutions/
Education
Braverman, B. (2013). America’s Growing Inequality in Education. The Fiscal Times.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/06/19/Americas-Growing-Inequality-in-Education.
Mettler, S. (2014). College, the Great Unleveler. The New York Times. Retrieved from,
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/college-the-great-unleveler/.
Financial Markets and Wealth
Bartlett, B. (2013) “Financialization’ as a Cause of Economic Malaise. The New York Times. Retrieved from
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/financialization-as-a-cause-of-economic-malaise/?_r=0.
Global Inequality
Cowan, T. (2014) Income Inequality Is Not Rising globally. It’s Falling. The New York Times. Retrieved from
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/upshot/income-inequality-is-not-rising-globally-its-falling.html?abt=0002&abg=1
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Health
Marmot, Michael. (2002). The Influence of Income on Health: Views of an Epidemiologist. Health Affairs, 21(2), 3136. Retrieved from, http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/21/2/31.full.html.
Rowlingson, K. (2011). Does Income Inequality Cause Health and Social Problems? The Joseph Roundtree
Foundation. Retrieved from, http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/inequality-income-social-problems-full.pdf.
Labor Markets and Wages
Corak, M. (2013). Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility. Journal of Economic
Perspectives, 27(3), 79–102. Full text available online: http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.3.79
Konczal, M. (2014). Economists Agree: Raising the Minimum Wage Reduces Poverty. The Washington Post.
Retrieved from, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/04/economists-agree-raisingthe-minimum-wage-reduces-poverty/.
Race, Class and Gender
Shapiro, T., Meschede, T. & Osoro, S. (2013). The roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Explaining the BlackWhite Economic Divide. Institute on Assets and Social Policy. Retrieved from,
http://iasp.brandeis.edu/pdfs/Author/shapiro-thomas-m/racialwealthgapbrief.pdf
The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap. (2014). AAUW Economic Justice. Retrieved from,
http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap/.
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