Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

by Richard V. Reeves

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815729136
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/23/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in Economic Studies and co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution.

Table of Contents

Contents:
1. Hoarding the Dream
2. A Class Apart
3. Growing Gains
4. Inheriting Class
5. Market Merit
6. Opportunity Hoarding
7. Sharing the Dream
8. Check Our Privilege
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Editorial Reviews

“For decades, economists have worried about the western “poverty trap”. But as Reeves shows, the “wealth trap” is every bit as sticky. It is harder to fall out of wealth in the US than it is in almost any other western democracy, Britain included.”—FInancial Times

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