Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund, John Early

The Myth of American Inequality (eBook, ePUB)

How Government Biases Policy Debate

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2022: Politics • Winner of the 2024 Hayek Book Prize, Manhattan Institute

Everything you know about income inequality, poverty, and other measures of economic well-being in America is wrong. In this provocative book, a former United States senator, eminent economist, and a former senior leader at the Bureau of Labor Statistics challenge the prevailing consensus that income inequality is a growing threat to American society. By taking readers on a deep dive into the way government measures economic well-being, they demonstrate that our official statistics dramatically overstate inequality. Getting the facts straight reveals that the key measures of well-being are greater than the official statistics of the country would lead us to believe. Income inequality is lower today than at any time in post- World War II America. The facts reveal a very different and better America than the one that is currently described by policy advocates across much of the political spectrum. The Myth of American Inequality provides clear and convincing evidence that the American Dream is alive and well.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538167397
• Artikelnr.: 64287363

Autorenporträt

Phil Gramm served six years in the U.S. House of Representatives and eighteen years in the U.S. Senate where he was Chairman of the Banking Committee. Gramm is a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He was Vice Chairman of UBS Investment Bank and is now Vice Chairman of Lone Star Funds. He taught Economics at Texas A&M University and has published numerous articles and books including The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate, coauthored with Robert Ekelund and John Early, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2022 and winner of the 2024 Hayek Book Prize. Gramm lives in the Helotes, TX.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Every Official Measure Understates America's Wellbeing
Chapter 2: Inequality in Producing and Consuming in America
Chapter 3: Poverty in America
Chapter 4: Trends
Chapter 5: Causes of Earned Income Inequality
Chapter 6: Measures of Wellbeing
Chapter 7: Super Rich
Chapter 8: Mobility
Chapter 9: Fifty Years of Growth
Chapter 10: Solutions
Bibliography
Appendices
About the Authors