Table of contents for The unaffordable nation : searching for a decent life in America / Jeffrey Jones.

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 Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Leibniz in Economics
I: The Unaffordable Nation
Chapter 1: Of Lawsuits and Lotteries
Chapter 2: Traditionalism and the Rise of the Credit Welfare System
	Chapter 3: An Examination of a Noble Sentiment
	Chapter 4: The Billionaire and the Destitute Man:
Unaffordability as a Political Problem
II: Poor Choice, Poor Justice, Poor Luck
	Chapter 5: Poor Choice: The American Hatred of Paupers
	Chapter 6: Poor Justice: Injustice and the Golden Rule
	Chapter 7: Poor Luck: The Inequity of Disability and Other Struggles
III: The Covenant on Affordability
	Chapter 8: The Covenant on Affordability
	Chapter 9: Some Applications: Corporations, Immigration and Trade
Conclusion: Stand Fast Young, Old Mule

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Cost and standard of living -- United States.
Public welfare -- United States.
United States -- Social policy -- 1993-.