Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. People Make Their Choices 3. Opportunity Matters 4. Opportunity Matters: More Yet 5. How Power Works 6. Capitalism: "Classical" Class 7. Realities of Class Today 8. Running the System: Business Power and Political Power 9. Cultural Power 10. Increasing Inequality Today 11. Confronting Inequality and Class: Distributive Justice 12. Confronting Inequality and Class: Economy, Community and Biosphere 13. Conclusion

About the Author

Eric A. Schutz is a Professor of Economics at Rollins College, USA.

Reviews

"Economist Schutz has written an eminently readable overview of a very interesting topic: how to include the concept of social class within a fundamentally neoclassical (i.e., standard) economic theory framework. Using little jargon and even less mathematics, Schutz carefully walks the reader through an increasingly realistic depiction of the contemporary American class system...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduate and up."--J. P. Jacobsen, CHOICE (February 2012)