The "Middle Class"

This page lists my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) working papers addressing the subject of what is so commonly called "the middle class." Central to the concern of this line of research has been the ambiguity of the term as commonly used--and the effort to offer a more meaningful standard as a basis for discussing just how extensive that class may have been in the past, and what has become of it since the mid-twentieth century.

The Definition of Middle Classness
"'What Qualifies a Household's Living Standard as Middle Class?' A Note." (2021)

"Of the Middle Class and the Quasi-Middle Class: A Note." (2023)

"Public Poverty and the Middle Class Living Standard: A Note." (2021)

The Decline of the Middle Class
"The Remaking--and Decline--of the Middle Class: A Note." (2021)

"Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and the Ambiguities of the Middle Class' Fortunes Between the Mid-Twentieth Century and Today: A Note." (2023)

"Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and Quasi-Middle Classness: A Note." (2023)

"U.S. Average and Median Hourly Compensation and Per Capita Gross Domestic Product: The Trend of the Last Half Century." (2022)

"The Declining Economic Viability of the Single-Income Household: A Note on the Fortunes of the Middle Class." (2022)

"The Four Year College Degree and the Middle Class Living Standard: A Tenuous Relationship." (2022)

"Natality, Senescence and the Quasi-Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era: A Note." (2023)

"The American Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century: Four Theses." (2022)