Title : | The Stakeholder Society |
Material Type: | printed text |
Authors: | Anne Alstott, Author ; Bruce A. Ackerman, Author |
Publisher: | New Haven : Yale University Press |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Pagination: | xi, 296 p. |
Size: | 21 cm |
ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-300-08260-9 |
General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287)
Including index (p. 289-296)
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Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
Descriptors: | Income distribution Social justice Taxation Welfare economics
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Class number: | 658.4 |
Abstract: | A quarter century of trickle-down economics has failed. Economic inequality in the United States has dramatically increased. Many, alas, seem resigned to this growing chasm between rich and poor. But what would happen, ask Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, if America were to make good on its promise of equal opportunity by granting every qualifying young adult a citizen’s stake of eighty thousand dollars? Ackerman and Alstott argue that every American citizen has the right to share in the wealth accumulated by preceding generations. The distribution of wealth is currently so skewed that the stake-holding fund could be financed by an annual tax of two percent on the property owned by the richest forty percent of Americans. |
Contents note: | The basic proposal; Expanding the stake; Defending the stake;
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Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=18949 |