Description
Contents
1: Prologue: Perspectives and Values
2: What Kind of Society Is American Society?
Part I: Capitalism
3: The Capitalist Market: How It Is Supposed to Work
4: The Capitalist Market: How It Actually Works
5: The Environment
6: Transportation
7: Consumerism
8: Health Care
9: Finance
10: High-Road Capitalism
Part II: Inequality
11: Thinking about Fairness and Inequality
12: Class
13: Persistent Poverty and Rising Inequality
14: Ending Poverty in America
15: Racial Inequality
16: Gender Inequality
Part III: Democracy
17: Democracy: How It Works
18: Elections and Voting
19: Taxation and the Attack on the Affirmative State
20: Corporate Control of the Media
21: Militarism and Empire
22: Labor Unions
23: Democracy from Below
24: Possible Futures
