{"product_id":"inequality-class-and-economics-9781583679425","title":"Inequality, Class, and Economics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if neoclassical economics addressed the question of class? This accessible overview of economic theory launches this investigation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe COVID-19 pandemic exposed the economic inequalities pervading every aspect of society-- and then multiplied them to a staggering degree. A mere nine months into the lockdown, the net worth of the infamous Forbes 400 increased by one trillion dollars; In a single year the US poverty rate rose by the largest amount ever since record-keeping began sixty years ago. At the same time, mass unemployment imperiled or erased the fragile right to quality health care for a substantial number of people living in states without Medicaid. In \u003ci\u003eInequality, Class, and Economics, \u003c\/i\u003e Eric Schutz illumines the pillars undergirding the monstrous polarities which define our times-- and reveals them as the very same structures of power at the foundations of the class system under today's capitalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmploying both traditional and novel approaches to public policy, \u003ci\u003e Inequality, Class, and Economics \u003c\/i\u003eoffers prescriptions that can genuinely address the steepening and hardening of class boundaries. This book pushes past economists' studied avoidance of the problem of class as a system of inequality based in unequal opportunity, and exhorts us to tackle the heart of the problem at long last.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric A. Schutz\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor Emeritus at Rollins College, where he taught a great variety of Economics courses from 1987-2015. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMarkets and Power: The Twentieth Century Command Economy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInequality and Power: The Economics of Class\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as articles in the \u003ci\u003eReview of Radical Political Economics\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eForum for Social Economics\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Economic Issues, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Political Economy\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his wife in western North Carolina\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Monthly Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50448364765458,"sku":"9781583679425","price":97.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_401fa2b0-27a0-47cb-87e6-9797ef14e31e.jpg?v=1737119511","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/inequality-class-and-economics-9781583679425","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}