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Dec 05, 2025
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LAW 7244 - Income and Wealth Inequality
Credits: 2
Analyzes the causes and consequences of the growing inequality of income and wealth in the United States over about the past 40 years. Considers both the “top 1% v. lower 99%” inequalities as well as the inequalities between the “upper middle class” as commonly understood and everyone who falls below this social and economic level. Attention is paid to racial income and wealth inequalities, and to international differences in the distribution of income and wealth, both within and between countries. Examines and assesses various tax proposals and other legal measures and broader social approaches that could be implemented to reverse or at least address the problems caused by these growing inequalities. Considers the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the results of the 2020 US elections for the distribution of income and wealth in the US. Students are required to read several books, some related book excerpts and articles, and other materials, and to submit a research paper of approximately 20 - 30 pages at the end of the course, or sometime during the following summer. This paper will satisfy one of the School of Law’s General Writing requirements. There will not be a course final examination. (*updated* 11/3/2020; effective spring 2021)
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