Literature and Inequality - by Daniel Shaviro (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality - not just in the authors' eras but today.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Today, high-end inequality in America and peer countries is at Gilded Age levels. These matters are too important and complicated to be left just to economists. A broader sociological and humanistic approach is necessary. Great works of literature, such as those by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, are among the resources that can help us to better understand high-end inequality's broader, culturally contingent, ramifications - not just in the authors' own eras but today. </p> <p>Daniel Shaviro's <em>Literature and Inequality</em> offers a unique and accessible interdisciplinary take on how a number of great and beloved works from the nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries help shed light on modern high-end inequality. In particular, Shaviro helps us to understand the relevance both of cultural differences between America and peer countries such as England and France, and of cultural commonalities between America's First Gilded Age in the late-nineteenth century and its currently ongoing Second Gilded Age.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Shaviro has successfully made a case for the study of creative literature by economists and tax specialists, who can now look at the history of literature as a history of their own. -- Robert Appelbaum, British Tax Review (2021)</p><br><br><p>"Literature and Inequality is an eye-opening and powerfully affecting book. By rereading literary classics through the lens of high-end inequality, and by emphasizing their fascination with the contest between patrimonial complacency and meritocratic ambition, Shaviro opens a new window into familiar texts. And by confronting us with the lessons of his readings, Shaviro compels a new reckoning with the rising high-end inequality and regenerated caste system that increasingly plague our own age." --Daniel Markovits, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law, Yale Law School, USA, and Author of The Meritocracy Trap</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Daniel Shaviro is the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School, where his research focuses on tax policy and distributive justice. He is also the author of the satirical novel <em>Getting It</em>.</p>
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