E-Books herunterladen Manifesto for a Dream: Inequality,
Constraint, and Radical Reform
By Michelle Jackson
Although it is well known that the United States has an inequality problem, the social
science community has failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead
adopted a strikingly insipid approach to policy reform, an ostensibly science-based
approach that offers incremental, narrow-gauge, and evidence-informed
"interventions." This approach assumes that the best that we can do is to contain the
problem. It is largely taken for granted that we will never solve it. In Manifesto for a
Dream Michelle Jackson asserts that we will never make strides toward equality if we
do not start to think radically. It is the structure of social institutions that generates
and maintains social inequality, and it is only by attacking that structure that progress
can be made. Jackson makes a scientific case for large-scale institutional reform,
drawing on examples from other countries to demonstrate that reforms that have
been unthinkable in the United States are considered to be quite
