The Society of Equals / / Pierre Rosanvallon.

Society's wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property--a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon, the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. Just as significant, driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction: The Crisis of Equality --
1. The Invention of Equality --
2. The Pathologies of Equality --
3. The Century of Redistribution --
4. The Great Reversal --
5. The Society of Equals: A Preliminary Outline --
Notes --
Index
Summary:Society's wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property--a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon, the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. Just as significant, driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of equality itself.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780674726444
9783110317350
9783110317121
9783110317114
9783110374889
9783110374902
9783110442205
9783110459517
9783110662566
DOI:10.4159/harvard.9780674726444
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Pierre Rosanvallon.