The new gilded age -- Escalating economic inequality -- Interpreting inequality -- Economic inequality as a political issue -- Inequality and American democracy -- The partisan political economy -- Partisan patterns of income growth -- A partisan coincidence? -- Partisan differences in...

"This is a book about the demand for redistribution of income through taxes and transfers. It is also a book about how our main intuition about what affects individual preferences for redistribution (whether a person is rich or poor) needs to be complemented with the consideration of other...