Never Enough: Capitalism and the Progressive Spirit

Author/Contributor(s):	Gilbert, Neil
Publisher:	Oxford Univ PR
Date:	12/13/2016
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Never Enough challenges the prevailing assumptions about the decline of middle-class prosperity, opportunity, and material well-being in the United States. In a careful reading of the evidence and a critical analysis of its implications, Gilbert demonstrates the extent to which the customary progressive claims about the severity of poverty, inequality, social mobility, and the benefits of universalism not only distort the empirical reality of modern life in an era of abundance, but confound efforts to help those most in need.