Jay R. Mandle, currently W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics at Colgate University, has also taught at Temple University and the University of the West Indies. Mandle has been a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley, and twice been a Fulbright Lecturer, once at the University of Guyana and once at Nankai University, China. Among his many publications, Professor Mandle recently published Globalization and the Poor (2003).

"Too many authors complain about the growth in income inequality without offering a way to solve the problem. Jay Mandle provides a real solution. The voluntary public financing of elections is the way to achieve the deepening of democracy that reversing inequality requires. To achieve that as he suggests, we will have to organize at the grassroots." Alex Cole, Founder, Vassar College Democracy Matters

• 1. The economics of inequality; 2. The politics of inequality; 3. The funding and biases of American politics; 4. History and reform efforts; 5. The problem of government; 6. The need for public financing; 7. Organizing for democracy.

Jay R. Mandle, currently W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics at Colgate University, has also taught at Temple University and the University of the West Indies. Mandle has been a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley, and twice been a Fulbright Lecturer, once at the University of Guyana and once at Nankai University, China. Among his many publications, Professor Mandle recently published Globalization and the Poor (2003).

"Too many authors complain about the growth in income inequality without offering a way to solve the problem. Jay Mandle provides a real solution. The voluntary public financing of elections is the way to achieve the deepening of democracy that reversing inequality requires. To achieve that as he suggests, we will have to organize at the grassroots." Alex Cole, Founder, Vassar College Democracy Matters

• 1. The economics of inequality; 2. The politics of inequality; 3. The funding and biases of American politics; 4. History and reform efforts; 5. The problem of government; 6. The need for public financing; 7. Organizing for democracy.

Jay R. Mandle, currently W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics at Colgate University, has also taught at Temple University and the University of the West Indies. Mandle has been a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley, and twice been a Fulbright Lecturer, once at the University of Guyana and once at Nankai University, China. Among his many publications, Professor Mandle recently published Globalization and the Poor (2003).

"Too many authors complain about the growth in income inequality without offering a way to solve the problem. Jay Mandle provides a real solution. The voluntary public financing of elections is the way to achieve the deepening of democracy that reversing inequality requires. To achieve that as he suggests, we will have to organize at the grassroots." Alex Cole, Founder, Vassar College Democracy Matters

• 1. The economics of inequality; 2. The politics of inequality; 3. The funding and biases of American politics; 4. History and reform efforts; 5. The problem of government; 6. The need for public financing; 7. Organizing for democracy.