Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Author:   Devin Fergus (Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780199970162


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   13 September 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Devin Fergus (Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9780199970162


ISBN 10:   0199970165
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   13 September 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. House Money: The Story of Subprime in Three Acts 2. Tax Eaters: The Origins of the Student Debt Bubble 3. Driving While Broke: How Auto Insurance Drives the Wealth Gap 4. Shadow Bankers and the Great Wage Stagnation: The Story of Payday Lending Epilogue Notes Index

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Land of the Fee offers a cogent, historically grounded account of how certain fees have emerged as stealth agents of our gaping wealth disparity. - Washington Monthly


This book is an outstanding primary text and faculty resource for upper-division and graduate classes in public and taxation policy and financial markets, regulation, and ethics * CHOICE *


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Devin Fergus is the Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri. Author of Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics (a CHOICE Outstanding Title for 2010), he has written widely on politics, policy, and inequality in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Prospect, The Guardian, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Slate.

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