Description
On this timely study of the different approaches of The united states and Europe to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty, the authors describe just how different the two continents are within the level of State engagement within the redistribution of source of revenue. They discuss quite a lot of imaginable economic explanations for the difference, including different levels of pre-tax source of revenue, openness, and social mobility; they survey politico-historical differences such as the varying physical size of nations, their electoral and legal systems, and the character in their political parties, in addition to their experiences of war; and so they examine sociological explanations which come with different attitudes to the poor and notions of social responsibility, in addition to, most importantly, attitudes to race.