| The Stakeholder Society Contributor(s): Ackerman, Bruce a. (Author), Alstott, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300082606 ISBN-13: 9780300082609 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $41.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: Must we resign ourselves to a growing chasm between rich and poor? Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott propose an innovative alternative in this thought-provoking book: an eighty thousand dollar grant for every qualifying young adult. The authors analyze this plan from many perspectives and argue that such a citizen's stake would open the way to a society that is more democratic, productive, and free. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 658.408 |
| LCCN: 98031559 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.56" W x 8.26" (0.76 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A quarter century of trickle-down economics has failed. Economic inequality in the United States has dramatically increased. Many, alas, seem resigned to this growing chasm between rich and poor. But what would happen, ask Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, if America were to make good on its promise of equal opportunity by granting every qualifying young adult a citizen's stake of eighty thousand dollars? Ackerman and Alstott argue that every American citizen has the right to share in the wealth accumulated by preceding generations. The distribution of wealth is currently so skewed that the stakeholding fund could be financed by an annual tax of two percent on the property owned by the richest forty percent of Americans. Ackerman and Alstott analyze their initiative from moral, political, economic, legal, and human perspectives. By summoning the political will to initiate stakeholding, they argue, we can achieve a society that is more democratic, productive, and free. Their simple but realistic plan would enhance each young adult s real ability to shape his or her own future. It is, in short, an idea that should be taken seriously by anyone concerned with citizenship, welfare dependency, or social justice in America today. |