Prometheus 6

The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
Author: Michael J Thompson
asin: 0231140746
Binding: Hardcover
List price: $32.50 USD

The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America by Michael J. Thompson is an American history. It reaches all the way back to the philosophers of Greece, all the way through Europe to explain the economic ideas current when the United States of America declared its independence. Then it follows the way these ideas were expressed as the economy (and hence the politics) of the nation changed beneath their feet. The overall result was the exchange of our intellectual forbears' sure knowledge that excessive inequality undermines the democracy itself, for the government supported libertarian market economy we now enjoy.