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Doug McAdam

Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology and Director of Urban Studies at Stanford University.

Articles

The writers—including Nobel Laureate in Economics Kenneth Arrow and bestselling authors Paul and Anne Ehrlich—lay out what our country’s principles are, whether we’re living up to them, and what can be done to bring our institutions into better alignment with them.

David B. Grusky, Rob Reich, Debra Satz, Doug McAdam

Forum Responses

Consistent with the central focus of the Occupy protests, most of the pieces written by Stanford faculty over the past two weeks have addressed the various forms of inequality that characterize the...
Doug McAdam
My previous piece discussed the ways in which extreme inequality threatens the ideals and practices of American democracy. It closed with the following note: The litany of our society’s inequities and their...
Doug McAdam

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