| Table of Contents |
| | Authors of Original Articles | |
| | Foreword / Derek Bok | |
| | Acknowledgments | |
| | Volume Introduction / Neva Goodwin, Frank Ackerman | |
| Pt. I | Unequal Earnings: Theory versus Reality | |
| | | Overview Essay / Frank Ackerman | 1 |
| | | Bringing Income Distribution In from the Cold / Anthony B. Atkinson | 10 |
| | | Wage Polarization in the U.S. and the "Flexibility" Debate / Bennett Harrison, Barry Bluestone | 14 |
| | | Wielding the Stick / David M. Gordon | 18 |
| | | Rising Wage Inequality: The U.S. versus Other Advanced Countries / Richard B. Freeman, Lawrence F. Katz | 21 |
| | | Inequality, Unemployment, Inflation, and Growth / James K. Galbraith | 25 |
| | | Trends in the Level and Distribution of U.S. Living Standards: 1973-1993 / Gary Burtless | 29 |
| Pt. II | The Distribution of Wealth and Power | |
| | | Overview Essay / Frank Ackerman | 33 |
| | | International Comparisons of Wealth Inequality / Edward N. Wolff | 42 |
| | | Long-Term Trends in American Wealth Inequality / Jeffrey G. Williamson, Peter H. Lindert | 45 |
| | | A Story of Two Nations: Race and Wealth / Melvin L. Oliver, Thomas M. Shapiro | 48 |
| | | The Corporate Community and the Upper Class / G. William Domhoff | 52 |
| | | Structures of Corporate Control / John Scott | 56 |
| Pt. III | New Paths to the Top: CEO and Celebrity Compensation | |
| | | Overview Essay / Frank Ackerman | 61 |
| | | How Winner-Take-All Markets Arise and The Growth of Winner-Take-All Markets / Robert H. Frank, Philip J. Cook | 77 |
| | | The Cost of Talent: Summing Up / Derek Bok | 80 |
| | | Management Compensation Plans - Panacea or Placebo? / Michael T. Jacobs | 84 |
| | | Top Executive Pay: Tournament or Teamwork? / Brian G. M. Main, Charles A. O'Reilly III, James Wade | 88 |
| | | Why Do Pro Athletes Make So Much Money? / James Quirk, Rodney D. Fort | 91 |
| | | Marginal Revenue and Labor Strife in Major League Baseball / Dale R. Oorlog | 95 |
| Pt. IV | Corporate Power: Why Does It Matter? | |
| | | Overview Essay / Neva Goodwin | 99 |
| | | Economy: The Political Foundations of Production and Exchange / Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis | 112 |
| | | Business Unity, Business Power / Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, Denise Scott | 116 |
| | | Bigness and Social Efficiency: A Case Study of the U.S. Auto Industry / Walter Adams, James W. Brock | 119 |
| | | The Dark Side of Flexible Production / Bennett Harrison | 123 |
| | | Power, Accumulation, and Crisis: The Rise and Demise of the Postwar Social Structure of Accumulation / David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf, Samuel Bowles | 127 |
| | | The Mobilization of Corporate Conservatism / Jerome L. Himmelstein | 130 |
| | | Markets and Politics / Robert Kuttner | 134 |
| | | The Solution: A Better Scorecard and What the Scorecard Should Contain / Ralph Estes | 138 |
| Pt. V | Poverty, Inequality, and Power | |
| | | Overview Essay / Frank Ackerman | 143 |
| | | Income, Deprivation, and Poverty and Implications for Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty / Brian Nolan, Christopher T. Whelan | 151 |
| | | The Age of Extremes: Concentrated Affluence and Poverty in the Twenty-First Century / Douglas S. Massey | 155 |
| | | Social Exclusion: Toward an Analytical and Operational Framework / Ajit S. Bhalla, Frederic Lapeyre | 158 |
| | | Poor Relief and the Dramaturgy of Work / Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward | 162 |
| | | Not Markets Alone: Enriching the Discussion of Income Distribution / Chris Tilly, Randy Albelda | 166 |
| Pt. VI | Intrahousehold Dynamics and Changing Household Composition | |
| | | Overview Essay / Laurie Dougherty | 171 |
| | | Trade, Merger, and Employment: Economic Theory on Marriage / Elaine McCrate | 182 |
| | | Gender Coalitions: Extrafamily Influence in Intrafamily Inequality / Nancy Folbre | 186 |
| | | Renegotiating the Marital Contract: Intrahousehold Patterns of Money Allocation and Women's Subordination Among Domestic Outworkers in Mexico City / Martha Roldan | 190 |
| | | Incomes, Expenditures, and Health Outcomes: Evidence on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation / Duncan Thomas | 194 |
| | | The Marginalization of Black Men: Impact on Family Structure / William A. Darity, Jr., Samuel L. Myers, Jr. | 197 |
| | | Single Mothers in Sweden: Why Is Poverty Less Severe? / Siv Gustafsson | 201 |
| Pt. VII | Technology, Skills, and Education | |
| | | Overview Essay / Laurie Dougherty | 205 |
| | | Institutional Failure and the American Worker: The Collapse of Low-Skill Wages / David R. Howell | 214 |
| | | Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from an International Panel of Industries / Stephen Machin, Annette Ryan, John Van Reenan | 217 |
| | | The "Skill-oriented" Strategies of German Trade Unions: Their Impact on Efficiency and Equality Objectives / Birgit Mahnkopf | 221 |
| | | Access to Education / Ajit S. Bhalla | 224 |
| | | The Economics of Justice in Education / Henry M. Levin | 228 |
| | | Making the Grade: Educational Stratification in the United States, 1925-1989 / Michael Hout, Adrian E. Raftery, Eleanor O. Bell | 231 |
| Pt. VIII | Categorical Inequality | |
| | | Overview Essay / Laurie Dougherty | 235 |
| | | Race and Gender Wage Gaps in the Market for Recent College Graduates / Catherine J. Weinberger | 249 |
| | | Intergroup Disparity: Economic Theory and Social Science Evidence / William A. Darity, Jr. | 252 |
| | | What's Fairness Got To Do With It? Environmental Justice and the Siting of Locally Undesirable Land Uses / Vicki Been | 255 |
| | | Tracking Racial Bias / Jerome G. Miller | 259 |
| | | The Impact of Economic Change on Minorities and Migrants in Western Europe / Ian Gordon | 262 |
| | | The Political Economy of Gender and Economic Progress and Gender Equality / Claudia Goldin | 266 |
| | | The Gender Pay Gap / Francine D. Blau | 270 |
| | | Social Construction of Skill: Gender, Power, and Comparable Worth / Ronnie J. Steinberg | 274 |
| | | Racial Antagonisms and Race-Based Social Policy / William Julius Wilson | 277 |
| | | The Future of Affirmative Action: Reclaiming the Innovative Ideal / Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier | 281 |
| Pt. IX | World Income Inequality and the Poverty of Nations | |
| | | Overview Essay / Kevin Gallagher | 287 |
| | | Divergence, Big Time / Lant Pritchett | 299 |
| | | Globalization and Inequality, Past and Present / Jeffrey G. Williamson | 303 |
| | | Income Distribution and Poverty: An Interregional Comparison / Kwan S. Kim | 306 |
| | | Income Inequality and Development: The 1970s and 1980s Compared / Irma Adelman, Nobuhiko Fuwa | 309 |
| | | The Relationship Between Wage Inequality and International Trade / George J. Borjas, Valerie A. Ramey | 313 |
| | | Openness and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Latin American Challenge to East Asian Conventional Wisdom / Adrian Wood | 316 |
| | | The Distributional Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries / Paul Cook, Colin Kirkpatrick | 320 |
| | | Income Distribution in Developing Economies: Conceptual, Data, and Policy Issues in Broad-Based Growth / Gary Fields | 323 |
| Pt. X | Responses to Inequality: The Welfare State | |
| | | Overview Essay / Frank Ackerman | 327 |
| | | Is There an Explanation? Alternative Models of the Labor Market and the Minimum Wage / David Card, Alan B. Krueger | 339 |
| | | Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, the Swedish Way / Anders Bjorklund, Richard B. Freeman | 343 |
| | | How Social Democracy Worked: Labor-Market Institutions / Karl Ove Moene, Michael Wallerstein | 347 |
| | | The American Paradox: High Income and High Child Poverty / Sheldon Danziger, Sandra Danziger, Jonathan Stern | 351 |
| | | Who Paid for the Canadian Welfare State during 1955-1988? / Ardeshir Sepehri, Robert Chernomas | 354 |
| | | On Targeting and Family Benefits / Anthony B. Atkinson | 357 |
| | Bibliography | 361 |
| | Subject Index | 377 |
| | Name Index | 401 |
