Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era Through the First Gilded Age - Paperback

by Daniel Shaviro (Author)

Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality - not just in the authors' eras but today.

Author Biography

Daniel Shaviro is the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School, where his research focuses on tax policy and distributive justice. He is also the author of the satirical novel Getting It.