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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Your Stake in America
Part 1. The Basic Proposal
2. Citizen Stakeholding
3. The Stake in Context
4. Profiles in Freedom
5. Payback Time
6. Taxing Wealth
7. The Limits of Growth—and Other Objections
Part 2. Expanding the Stake
8. From Worker to Citizen
9. Taxing Privilege
Part 3. Defending the Stake
10. Ideals
11. Alternatives
Appendix: Funding the Stakeholder Society
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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The Stakeholder Society

Bruce Ackerman Anne Alstott

Yale University Press New Haven & London

Copyright © 1999 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers.

Ackerman, Bruce A. The stakeholder society / Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-300-07826-8 (alk. paper) 1. Income distribution. 2. Social justice. 3. Welfare economics. 4. Taxation. 5. Tax incidence. 6. Wealth. I. Alstott, Anne, 1963.II. Title. HB523.A27 1999 658.4'08-