xiii, 325 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Preface -- 1. The new gilded age -- Escalating economic inequality -- Interpreting inequality -- Economic inequality as a political issue -- Inequality and American democracy -- 2. The partisan political economy -- Partisan patterns of income growth -- A partisan coincidence? -- Partisan differences...

7. The strange appeal of estate tax repeal -- Public support for estate tax repeal -- Is public support for repeal a product of misinformation? -- Did interest groups manufacture public antipathy to the estate tax? -- Elite ideology and the politics of estate tax repeal -- 8. The eroding minimum wag...