Las protestas de Occupy Wall Street han capturado la imaginación política norteamericana. Las encuestas revelan que dos tercios de la nación creen que la riqueza debe ser distribuida de manera más uniforme, pero más de la mitad sienten que las protestas tienen poco impacto en la desigualdad. ¿Cómo se explica esta desconexión? La mayoría de los estadounidenses se han resignado a creer que los ricos simplemente siempre se salen con la suya. Excepto que no lo hacen. Hace un siglo, Estados Uni...

The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way.Except they don't....

Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Could capping top incomes tackle rising inequality more effectively than conventional approaches?In this engaging book, leading analyst Sam Pizzigati details how egalitarians worldwide are demonstrating that a “maximum wage” could be both economically viable and politically practical. He shows h...

Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, which since 1963 has been the nation's leading progressive policy organization, offers a set of specific policy proposals for the incoming national administration on every major domest...