Table of Contents

1. Title page
2. Copyright page
3. Dedication
4. Introduction
5. I An American Dual Economy
   1. 1 A Dual Economy
   2. 2 The FTE Sector
   3. 3 The Low-Wage Sector
   4. 4 Transition
6. II Politics in a Dual Economy
   1. 5 Race and Gender
   2. 6 The Investment Theory of Politics
   3. 7 Preferences of the Very Rich
   4. 8 Concepts of Government
7. III Government in a Dual Economy
   1. 9 Mass Incarceration
   2. 10 Public Education
   3. 11 American Cities
   4. 12 Personal and National Debts
8. IV Comparisons and Conclusions
   1. 13 Comparisons
   2. 14 Conclusions
9. Appendix: Models of Inequality
10. References
11. Index

List of Tables

1. Table 1 U.S. population and its parts

List of Illustrations

1. Figure 1 Percent of aggregate U.S. household income. Note: The assignment to income tiers is based on size-adjusted household incomes in the year prior to the survey year. Shares may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding. Source: Pew Research Center 2015
2. Figure 2 Productivity and average real earnings Source: Bickerton and Gourevitch 2011, using data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
3. Figure 3 Top 1 percent income share in the United States Source: http://www.wid.world/
4. Figure 4 Change in occupational employment shares in low-, middle-, and high-wage occupations in the United States, 1993–2010 Source: Autor and Dorn 2013
5. Figure 5 Money and congressional elections, 2012 Source: Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Chen 2013
6. Figure 6 Change in occupational employment shares in low-, middle- and high-wage occupations in 16 EU countries, 1993–2010 Source: Goos, Manning, and Salomons 2014
7. Figure 7 Global income growth from 1988 to 2008 Source: Milanović 2016 (explanatory boxes added)

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