The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
- ISBN-10
- 0451493915
- ISBN-13
- 9780451493910
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 423
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Ganesh Sitaraman
Description
"Argues that America's strong and sizable middle class is actually embedded in the framework of the nation's government and its founding document and discusses the necessity of taking equality-establishing measures, "--NoveList.
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