Course description
This course is designed to teach the structural economic factors that result in or lead to inequality in economic outcomes and opportunity. The course is organized around six aspects of the US economy over the last four decades, focusing on issues related to the declining middle class, gender inequality, racial inequality, and the rise of the very rich. The course offers a distinction between inequality in opportunity and inequality in outcomes, and we discuss policies currently in place and those that have been suggested to attempt to alleviate these inequalities.
