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The Trickle-Up Economy : How We Take from the Poor and Middle Class and Give to the Rich / Mark Mattern.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (205 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781626379688
  • 9781685851040
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Trickle-Down Economics: Myths and Fairy Tales -- 2 Wages and Benefits: No Fair Share for Workers -- 3 The Tax System: Class Struggle Laid Bare -- 4 Social Welfare: We’re All on the Dole -- 5 Corporate Welfare: Aid for Dependent Corporations -- 6 The US Financial System: A Casino Economy -- 7 Racialized Redistribution: Affirmative Action for White People -- 8 Markets and Power: The Invisible Fist -- 9 Reversing the Flow: Toward a More Democratic Political Economy -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: One of the most durable myths of US political economy is that we take from the rich and give to the poor—penalizing the rich for their hard work and rewarding the undeserving. Mark Mattern turns that story on its head. Documenting the everyday, institutionalized ways that income and wealth are transferred upward in the United States, Mattern shows how in fact the bottom subsidizes the top. His provocative analysis, describing in detail the processes and policy choices that systematically favor the rich, is both a tale of “Robin Hood in reverse” and a call for a more equitable, democratic political economy.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Trickle-Down Economics: Myths and Fairy Tales -- 2 Wages and Benefits: No Fair Share for Workers -- 3 The Tax System: Class Struggle Laid Bare -- 4 Social Welfare: We’re All on the Dole -- 5 Corporate Welfare: Aid for Dependent Corporations -- 6 The US Financial System: A Casino Economy -- 7 Racialized Redistribution: Affirmative Action for White People -- 8 Markets and Power: The Invisible Fist -- 9 Reversing the Flow: Toward a More Democratic Political Economy -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book

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One of the most durable myths of US political economy is that we take from the rich and give to the poor—penalizing the rich for their hard work and rewarding the undeserving. Mark Mattern turns that story on its head. Documenting the everyday, institutionalized ways that income and wealth are transferred upward in the United States, Mattern shows how in fact the bottom subsidizes the top. His provocative analysis, describing in detail the processes and policy choices that systematically favor the rich, is both a tale of “Robin Hood in reverse” and a call for a more equitable, democratic political economy.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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