Robert Putnam The growing economic inequity is linked with growing inequality in other spheres In stark contrast to the decades of the Great Convergence, when average Americans garnered a growing share of a growing pie, during the decades of the Great Divergence, the growth…
Robert Putnam Corporations’ outsized power But the departure from our past is visible not only in rising inequality and resultant pessimism - it is also apparent in the institutions that increasingly define our nation. Corporate…
Robert Putnam Prosperity at a cost Were Alexis de Tocqueville to travel to America once again - further on in our national story - what might he find? Would America fulfill its promise of balancing individual…