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26 October 2008

The great divide

Underneath the economic storm clouds lies a nation deeply riven. The richest country in the world is experiencing inequality in wealth and opportunity on a scale that rivals any other time in the past century. But is it as simple as redistributing wealth? Ironically, it may just be the American Dream that gets in the way.


Guests

Elizabet Anderson
Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, USA

Larry Bartels
Professor of Public and International Affairs; Professor of Politics and Public Affairs; Director, Center for the Study of Democartic Politics, Princeton University, USA

Professor Robert H Frank
Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, The Johnson School, Cornell University, USA

Michael Gawenda
Director, Centre for the Advanced Study of Journalism, University of Melbourne

William Galston
Senior Fellow, Goverance Studies, The Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Goverance Studies, Brookings Institution

Robert Reich
Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Further Information

Professor Robert H. Frank

William Galston

Larry Bartels

Elizabeth Anderson

Robert Reich

Publications

Title: Falling Behind: How Rsing Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Author: Robert H. Frank
Publisher: University of California Press (2007)

Title: Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy Us in an Era of Excess
Author: Robert H. Frank
Publisher: Princeton University Press (2000)

Title: The Winner-Take-All Society
Author: Robert H. Frank and Philip Cook
Publisher: The Free Press (1995)

Title: Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Author: Larry Bartels
Princeton University Press and tthe Russell Sage Foundation (2008)

Title: American Memoir: A Personal and Political Journey
Author: Michael Gawenda
Publisher: Melbourne University Press (2007)

Title: Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America N.B. This is a PDF report
Author: Julia B. Isaacs, Isabel V. Sawhill, and Ron Haskins
Publisher: Brookings (2008)

Title: The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier
Author: Richard Wilkinson
Publisher: Routledge (2005)

Title: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democarcy, and Everyday Life
Author: Robert Reich
Publisher: Borzoi Books (2007)

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