Public Policy, Income Distribution, and Class Warfare

Poverty and Public Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-23

  Stephens, G Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

class warfare; distribution; income; policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055409048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-2858.1002     Document Type: Article

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