The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America

Michael J. Thompson

December, 2007
Cloth, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14074-4
$32.50 / £22.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction. The Political Dimensions of Economic Inequality

1. The Critique of Economic Inequality in Western Political Thought: The Continuity of an Idea

2. The Liberal Republic and the Emergence of Capitalism: The Political Theories of Optimism and Radicalism

3. The Transformation of American Capitalism: From Class Antagonism to Reconciliation

4. Embracing Inequality: The Reorientation of American Democracy

Conclusion. Restating the Case for Economic Equality

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• American Politics
• Political Theory

About the Author

Michael J. Thompson is assistant professor of political science at William Paterson University. His articles have appeared in New Political Science, Review for Radical Political Economics, Critical Sociology, New Politics, Owl of Minerva, European Journal of Social Theory, and Philosophy and Literature. He is the founder and editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture and the editor of Islam and the West: Perspectives on Modernity as well as Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America.

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