Author: Schwartz, Nelson D.

Price: $17.43

Category:Economics
Publication Date:2020-03-03T00:00:01Z
Pages:352
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:0385543085
ISBN:13:9780385543088
New York Times economic specialist Nelson D. Schwartz explores the "velvet ropes" that businesses - and, increasingly, public institutions - erect to separate haves from have-nots. The have-nots suffer long lines and shabby treatment. The haves get fast lanes of such improved circumstances that they don't notice or care about the dilapidation of services for everybody else. These socioeconomic fault lines isolate groups of people from one another - based on ability to pay - and fray the social cohesion that binds communities and creates broad support for their institutions.