The Case for a Maximum Wage
- 140 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits.
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Sam Pizzigati has been exploring the landscape of inequality in America since the early 1990s. A veteran labor journalist, he delves into the complexities of unequally distributed income and wealth. As an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Pizzigati co-edits Inequality.org, a platform dedicated to these pressing issues. His insightful analyses have graced the pages of prominent national and international publications.
- 2018
- 1992
Traces the history of attempts to limit incomes, and proposes the adoption of a maximum wage as a way to revitalize both democracy and the economy