Lane Kenworthy
Lane Kenworthy is an American professor of sociology and political science. He has worked at the University of Arizona since 2004, being a full professor since 2007.[1] He is known for his statistical and analytic work on the economic effects of income and wealth distribution.[2]
He advocates incremental reforms to the U.S. welfare state in the direction of the Nordic social democratic model, thereby increasing economic security and equal opportunity.[3]
Biography
Kenworthy was born in New York and grew up in Atlanta. He received a B.A. in sociology from Harvard University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1993.[4]
Kenworthy worked as assistant professor of sociology at Rochester Institute of Technology 1994–1995 and held the same position at East Carolina University 1995–2000. He worked as assistant at Emory University 2000–2004.[4] As of 2014 he is a professor of sociology and political science at the University of Arizona.[5]
He played forward for the United States national youth soccer team.[6]
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As best I can tell from the available data, income inequality hasn't reduced economic growth. It hasn't hindered employment. It may or may not have played a role in fostering economic crises, including the Great Recession. It hasn't reduced income growth for poor households ...
It may or may not have reduced equality of opportunity ...
Income inequality has reduced middle-class household income growth. It very likely has increased disparities in education, health, and happiness in the United States. And it has reduced residential mixing in the U.S.[5]
Books
- In Search of National Economic Success (1995) Sage. ISBN 9780803971608
- Egalitarian Capitalism: Jobs, Incomes, and Growth in Affluent Countries. (2004) Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 9780871544513
- Jobs with Equality (2008) Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 9780199550609
- Progress for the Poor (2011) Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780199591527 [7]
- Social Democratic America (2014) Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780199322510 [8][9][10][11][12]
Selected articles
- "America's Social Democratic Future". (February 2014). Foreign Affairs.
- Kenworthy, Lane (2013). "Lifting Living Standards in an Open Economy: The Danger of Front-Loading Income Inequality" (PDF). Progressive Politics After the Crash: Governing from the Left. London ; New York: I.B. Taurus. pp. 157–169. ISBN 9781780767635. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
- Kenworthy, Lane (2013). "Has Rising Inequality Reduced Middle-Class Income Growth?" (PDF). Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries. Stanford University Press. pp. 101–113. ISBN 9780804778244. Retrieved 2013-05-13.
- Kenworthy, Lane (2010). "Rising inequality, public policy, and America's poor". Challenge (Taylor and Francis) 53 (6): 93–109. doi:10.2753/0577-5132530606. Pdf.
- "Inequality, Public Opinion and Redistribution by Lane Kenworthy, Leslie McCall". Socio-Economic Review 6 (1): 35–68. January 2008. doi:10.1093/ser/mwm006. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- "Varieties of Welfare Capitalism by Lane Kenworthy, Alexander M. Hicks". Socio-Economic Review 1: 27–61. 2003. doi:10.1093/soceco/1.1.27. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- Kenworthy, Lane (1999). "Do Social-Welfare Policies Reduce Poverty? A Cross-National Assessment". Social Forces 77 (3): 1119–1139. doi:10.1093/sf/77.3.1119.
- Bradley, D.; Huber, E.; Moller, S.; Nielsen, F.; Stephens, J. D. (2003). "Determinants of Relative Poverty in Advanced Capitalist Democracies". American Sociological Review 68 (1): 22–51. doi:10.2307/3088901.
References
- ↑ Norman Geras (2 May 2008) The normblog profile 241: Lane Kenworthy Normblog. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ↑ "Lane Kenworthy, Prosperity, and the Infinite Forms of "Redistribution"". Asymptosis. 2014-04-19. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- ↑ Kenworthy, Lane (February 2014). America's Social Democratic Future. Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2 February 2014. See also: Kenworthy, Lane (2014). Social Democratic America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199322511
- 1 2 Lane Kenworthy University of Arizona. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- 1 2 Porter, Eduardo (2014-03-25). "Q&A: A Sociologist on Inequality". New York Times: Economix Blog. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- ↑ Lawrie Mifflin and Michael Katz (28 September 1982) SCOUTING; Ivy League Goal New York Times. Retrieved 9 January 2014
- ↑ "Progress for the Poor by Lane Kenworthy". Goodreads. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- ↑ Dylan Matthews (January 2014). This sociologist has a plan to make America more like Sweden The Washington Post.
- ↑ "SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AMERICA by Lane Kenworthy". Kirkus Reviews. 2013-11-15. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- ↑ Black, Eric (2014-03-04). "Lane Kenworthy on why we're headed toward social democracy". MinnPost. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- ↑ "BOOK REVIEW: "Social Democratic America" by Lane Kenworthy". Red Dirt Report. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: Social Democratic America by Lane Kenworthy". Publisher's Weekly. 2014-01-01. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
External links
- Official site
- Official page, U. of AZ
- Porter, Eduardo (2014-03-25). "Q&A: A Sociologist on Inequality". New York Times: Economix Blog. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- "The normblog profile 241: Lane Kenworthy". normblog. 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- Salam, Reihan (2011-05-24). "Garett Jones and Lane Kenworthy on Taxes, Scandinavian Exceptionalism, and Much Else". The Agenda, National Review Online's domestic-policy blog. Retrieved 2014-06-05.