The New Class Conflict
by Joel Kotkin
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Pub Date Sep 01 2014 | Archive Date Dec 31 2014
Description
In ways not seen since the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, America is becoming a nation of increasingly sharply divided classes. Joel Kotkin’s The New Class Conflict shows how the rise of a high-tech Oligarchy, along with academia, the media, and the government bureaucracy, is creating a new class order, largely at the expense of the middle class. Looking beyond the conventional views of both left and right, conservative and liberal, Kotkin provides a tough but evenhanded analysis of our evolving class system, and suggests some approaches that might restore the middle class to its proper role as the dominant group in the American future.
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Advance Praise
“Joel Kotkin’s The New Class Conflict takes a battering ram of fact and sharp polemic to the tired orthodoxies of the American Left and Right on class and income inequality. Conservatives complain that liberals punish them for being rich and productive and prevent them from creating jobs, all while the rich get richer by means that have little to do with productivity or job creation. The liberals say that income inequality is America’s number one problem, but during Barack Obama’s administration, his policies have widened the gap all the more. Kotkin does more than damn the mainstream views. He annihilates political fictions with corrective fact. Those who disagree will have to wrestle with Kotkin’s empiricism.”
—TED C. FISHMAN, bestselling author of China, Inc. and Shock of Gray
“There’s class warfare politics in America today, but not between Marx’s bourgeoisie and proletariat. On one side are a hyperaffluent financial and high-tech Oligarchy and a preachy media, university, and government Clerisy, using their advantages to promote liberal social values and ‘green’ policies. On the other side are the middle-class Yeomanry and an urban underclass, both of which need the mass economic growth and upward mobility that the Oligarchy and Clerisy ignore. Joel Kotkin’s The New Class Conflict tells how this conflict is proceeding—and how it might be turned around.”
—MICHAEL BARONE, Washington Examiner and the American Enterprise Institute
“For those bemoaning the end of the American Dream, The New Class Conflict offers hope, coupled with an unconventional and insightful recipe for its restoration. Joel Kotkin calls upon all Americans, and Millennials in particular, to have the courage to overcome the economic, political, and social factors that are keeping America’s middle and working classes from enjoying the benefits of our resilient economy. In a book that will please neither Left nor Right, Kotkin uses his caustic and entertaining perspective to identify what needs to be done to preserve upward mobility, ‘the very idea of America.’”
—MORLEY WINOGRAD, co-author of three books on the Millennial generation
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780914386285 |
| PRICE | $29.95 (USD) |
