The Psychology of Poverty, Wealth, and Economic Inequality

Deborah Belle is Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Her books include Lives in stress: Women and depression; Children's social networks and social support; and The after-school lives of children: Alone and with others while parents work. She has been a William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Mental Health of Children; Evelyn Green Davis Fellow in Psychology at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College; and Fellow of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Heather E. Bullock is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her most recent book is Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty (with Mark Robert Rank and Lawrence M. Eppard). She received a 2019 American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for her contributions to the field of psychology related to social psychological dimensions of poverty and economic (in)justice. Before joining UCSC's faculty, she served as an APA/AAAS Congressional Fellow with the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions – Democratic Office.

'Belle and Bullock skillfully present the academic research demonstrating the profound consequences of economic and social inequality in the United States in a way that is highly accessible to undergraduates. Their section on solutions to inequality makes clear that change can happen and will leave students hungry for economic justice and primed for political action.' James Avery, Stockton University

• 1. Contemporary Economic Inequalities; 2. Beliefs about social class, poverty, and wealth; 3. Classist stigma, exclusion, and disrespect; 4. Poverty and its Costs; 5. Working Class: The Essential Workers; 6. Wealth and its Costs; 7. Societal Economic Inequality; 8. Race and Racism; 9. Gender and poverty; 10. Housing Precarity and Homelessness; 11. Parenting While Poor; 12. Social Networks and Social Supports; 13. Poverty, Psychology, and Mental Health Services; 14. Working Toward Equality and Economic Justice.