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For the past three years, America has continuously become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our earnings are significantly unequal. This regular growing apart is often brought up as a troubling indicator by scholars and coverage analysts, though hardly ever tackled by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the fantastic Divergence" has till now been cared for as little more than a speaking point, a rhetorical team to be wielded in ideological battles. But this Great Divergence may be the most crucial change in this country during our lifetimes - a drastic, elemental change in the type of American modern culture, and not at all for the better. The inequality difference is much more than a left-right hot potato - its triggers and consequences call for a patient, non-partisan exploration. Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence, predicated on his award-winning series of articles for Slate, studies the root base of the prosperity gap, drawing on the best thinking of modern economists and politics researchers. Noah also explores potential solutions to the problem, and explores why the growing rich-poor divide has sparked amazingly little open public anger, as opposed to interpersonal unrest that prevailed before the New Package. The Great Divergence was one of the very most talked-about books of 2012, a jump-start to the nationwide dialogue about the condition of American modern culture in the 21st century, and a work that will assist frame the controversy in a Presidential election 12 months.
