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Income Distribution and Social Justice

In: The Shrinking American Middle Class

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  • Joseph Dillon Davey

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Alexis de Tocqueville published the classic Democracy in America in 1835. His masterpiece begins with the words, “amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of condition among the people.” As a French aristocrat, de Tocqueville marveled at a level of equality that he had never witnessed before and concluded that if democracy could work anywhere, it would be in America. If “equality” is essential for democracy to succeed, then the growing inequality of recent decades should be a seminal concern for all Americans.

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  • Joseph Dillon Davey, 2012. "Income Distribution and Social Justice," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Shrinking American Middle Class, chapter 0, pages 11-23, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-29507-1_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137295071_2
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