New left review · 2004 · 33 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesEconomicsGeographyEconomic GeographyEconomic HistoryPolitical EconomyAgrarian Political EconomyEconomic ChangeEconomic RestructuringIncome DistributionIncome RedistributionPovertyIncome LevelKeynesian EconomicsNeoliberal State RestructuringWealth Mobility
A dramatic shift in the distribution of property and income to the very richest layers of US society has been a notorious trend of the past quarter-century, reaching dizzying peaks in the Clinton years. But these Himalayan heights of wealth and power are now surrounded by lower ridges of enrichment, with the formation of a new upper salariat stabilizing the post-Keynesian social order.