Inequality For All

Author : William Schmidt
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807771082
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inequality for All written by William Schmidt and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inequality for All makes an important contribution to current debates about economic inequalities and the growing achievement gap, particularly in mathematics and science education. The authors argue that the greatest source of variation in opportunity to learn is not between local communities, or even schools, but between classrooms. They zero in on one of the core elements of schooling—coverage of subject matter content—and examine how such opportunities are distributed across the millions of school children in the United States. Drawing on data from the third TIMMS international study of curriculum and achievement, as well as a six-district study of over 500 schools across the United States, they point to Common Core State Standards as being a key step in creating a more level playing field for all students. William H. Schmidt is University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and co-director of the Education Policy Center. Curtis C. McKnight is emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Oklahoma.

Author : Robert B. Reich
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307476332
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aftershock written by Robert B. Reich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtful and detailed account of the American economy and how we can fix it. A practical, humane, and much-needed blueprint for rebuilding our society. - Back of book.

Author : Janet C. Gornick
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804786755
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Income Inequality written by Janet C. Gornick and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention to the middle class, a segment often not addressed in inequality literature. Written by leading scholars in the field of economic inequality, all 17 chapters draw on microdata from the databases of LIS, an esteemed cross-national data center based in Luxembourg. Using LIS data to structure a comparative approach, the contributors paint a complex portrait of inequality across affluent countries at the beginning of the 21st century. The volume also trail-blazes new research into inequality in countries newly entering the LIS databases, including Japan, Iceland, India, and South Africa.

Author : Uri B. Dadush
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815724217
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inequality in America written by Uri B. Dadush and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inequality in America provides a snapshot of the issues posed by growing economic disparity, focusing particularly on America but drawing on international comparisons to help set the context. The authors examine the economic, technological, and political drivers of inequality as well as identify worrying trends associated with its rise, making the issues surrounding income distribution accessible to a wider public.

Author : Anthony B. Atkinson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674287037
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inequality written by Anthony B. Atkinson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inequality and poverty have returned with a vengeance in recent decades. To reduce them, we need fresh ideas that move beyond taxes on the wealthy. Anthony B. Atkinson offers ambitious new policies in technology, employment, social security, sharing of capital, and taxation, and he defends them against the common arguments and excuses for inaction.

Author : Dean Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692793367
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigged written by Dean Baker and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather, it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward.

Author : Edward Conard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1595231234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Upside of Inequality written by Edward Conard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scourge of America’s economy isn't the success of the 1 percent—quite the opposite. The real problem is the government’s well-meaning but misguided attempt to reduce the payoffs for success. Four years ago, Edward Conard wrote a controversial bestseller, Unintended Consequences, which set the record straight on the financial crisis of 2008 and explained why U.S. growth was accelerating relative to other high-wage economies. He warned that loose monetary policy would produce neither growth nor inflation, that expansionary fiscal policy would have no lasting benefit on growth in the aftermath of the crisis, and that ill-advised attempts to rein in banking based on misplaced blame would slow an already weak recovery. Unfortunately, he was right. Now he’s back with another provocative argument: that our current obsession with income inequality is misguided and will only slow growth further. Using fact-based logic, Conard tracks the implications of an economy now constrained by both its capacity for risk-taking and by a shortage of properly trained talent—rather than by labor or capital, as was the case historically. He uses this fresh perspective to challenge the conclusions of liberal economists like Larry Summers and Joseph Stiglitz and the myths of “crony capitalism” more broadly. Instead, he argues that the growing wealth of most successful Americans is not to blame for the stagnating incomes of the middle and working classes. If anything, the success of the 1 percent has put upward pressure on employment and wages. Conard argues that high payoffs for success motivate talent to get the training and take the risks that gradually loosen the constraints to growth. Well-meaning attempts to decrease inequality through redistribution dull these incentives, gradually hurting not just the 1 percent but everyone else as well. Conard outlines a plan for growing middle- and working-class wages in an economy with a near infinite supply of labor that is shifting from capital-intensive manufacturing to knowledge-intensive, innovation-driven fields. He urges us to stop blaming the success of the 1 percent for slow wage growth and embrace the upside of inequality: faster growth and greater prosperity for everyone.

Author : Robert B. Reich
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345807227
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition) written by Robert B. Reich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and With a New Introduction When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy, suggests another reason for the meltdown. Our real problem, he argues, lies in the increasing concentration of income at the top, robbing the vast middle class of the purchasing power it needs to keep the economy going. This thoughtful and detailed account of the American economy—and how we can fix it—is a practical, humane, and much-needed blueprint for rebuilding our society.

Author : Hanjo Taubig
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351679090
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matrix Inequalities for Iterative Systems written by Hanjo Taubig and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reviews inequalities for weighted entry sums of matrix powers. Applications range from mathematics and CS to pure sciences. It unifies and generalizes several results for products and powers of sesquilinear forms derived from powers of Hermitian, positive-semidefinite, as well as nonnegative matrices. It shows that some inequalities are valid only in specific cases. How to translate the Hermitian matrix results into results for alternating powers of general rectangular matrices? Inequalities that compare the powers of the row and column sums to the row and column sums of the matrix powers are refined for nonnegative matrices. Lastly, eigenvalue bounds and derive results for iterated kernels are improved.

Author : Shenggen Fan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135972249
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Inequality in China written by Shenggen Fan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social compact and thus the political basis for economic growth. Chinese policy makers have realized the importance of the problem and have launched a series of investigations and policy initiatives to address the issues. The regional dimension of inequality—rural/urban and inland/coastal—dominates in a country as large as China, and especially with its particular history. Not surprisingly, regional inequality has come to loom large in the policy debate in China. The policy debate has been informed by, and to some extent instigated by, a parallel analytical literature which has quantified the magnitude of the problem and identified recent trends, offered explanations based on rigorous analysis, and proposed policy interventions in light of the facts and understanding. Through a series of articles which have been published in leading journals, the editors have been involved in a systematic investigation into the nature and evolution of regional inequality in China for over a decade.