The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Timothy Noah. The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It. New York, Bloomsbury, 2012.

For the past three decades, the rich have been getting richer and the middle class has been losing ground in America, a phenomenon that economist Paul Krugman has labeled "the great divergence." In that same time period, union membership has declined, college tuitions have soared, business lobbying has vastly risen, outsourcing jobs to nations...