Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. INITIATIVE FOR POLICY DIALOGUE AT COLUMBIA: CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I America’s Growing Inequality
6. CHAPTER 1 Alternative Theories of Inequality CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND POLICIES 33
7. PART II Recasting the Evidence in a New Light
8. CHAPTER 2 Labor Market Segmentation and the Distribution of Income 103
9. CHAPTER 3 The Cost of Gender Inequality STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND THE LABOR SHARE OF INCOME 128
10. CHAPTER 4 The Postwar Trajectory of the U.S. Labor Share STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND SECULAR STAGNATION 150
11. CHAPTER 5 The Changing Patterns of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917–2017 170
12. PART III Policy Matters: Labor Markets, Education, Tax, and Intellectual Property
13. CHAPTER 6 Policy Decisions’ Role in Wage Suppression and Inequality 191
14. CHAPTER 7 “Leave Something for the Risk-Takers” HOW THE DEMOCRATS REBUILT STRUCTURAL RACISM AND HASTENED THE GREAT POLARIZATION, 1964–1978 225
15. CHAPTER 8 Teachers’ Unions and Public Education During the Great Polarization 257
16. CHAPTER 9 Is Intellectual Property the Root of All Evil? PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, AND INEQUALITY 275
17. PART IV The Political Economy of Inequality: Political Context and the Way Forward
18. CHAPTER 10 The Economic Discourse on Income Inequality 299
19. CHAPTER 11 Redistribution and Social Exclusion in the United States and Germany 316
20. CHAPTER 12 A Race-Conscious Economic Rights Approach to Providing Economic Security For All 333
21. CHAPTER 13 Law and the Collective Struggle for Economic Justice 348
22. CONTRIBUTORS 367
23. INDEX 375