A series of essays looks at key principles of the United States, whether Americans are living up to them and what can be done to truly fulfill them.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has ignited new questions about the relationshipbetween democracy and equality in the United States. Are we also entering a moment in history inwhich the disjuncture between our principles and our institutions is cast into especially sharprelief? Do new developments--most notably the rise of extreme inequality--offer new threats to therealization of our most cherished principles? Can we build an open, democratic, and successfulmovement to realize our ideals? Occupy the Future offers informed and opinionatedessays that address these questions. The writers--including Nobel Laureate in Economics KennethArrow and bestselling authors Paul and Anne Ehrlich--lay out what our country's principles are,whether we're living up to them, and what can be done to bring our institutions into betteralignment with them.
Contributers: David Grusky, Doug McAdam,Rob Reich, Erin Cumberworth, Debra Satz, Kenneth J. Arrow, Kim A. Weeden, Sean F. Reardon, PrudenceL. Carter, Shelley J. Correll, Gary Segura, David D. Laitin, Cristobal Young, Charles Varner, DougMcAdam, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Donald A. Barr,Michele Elam, Jennifer DeVere Brody, H. Samy Alim and David Palumbo-Liu.
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