Lane Kenworthy is an American professor of sociology and political science. He has worked at the University of Arizona since 2004, being a full professor since 2007.Norman Geras (2 May 2008) The normblog profile 241: Lane Kenworthy Normblog. Retrieved 9 January 2014. He is known for his statistical and analytic work on the economic effects of income and wealth distribution. He currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego.
He advocates incremental reforms to the U.S. welfare state in the direction of the social-democratic Nordic model, thereby increasing economic security and equal opportunity.Kenworthy, Lane (February 2014). America's Social Democratic Future. Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2 February 2014. See also: Kenworthy, Lane (2014). Social Democratic America. Oxford University Press.
Biography Kenworthy was born in New York City and grew up in Atlanta. He received a B.A. in sociology from Harvard University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1993.Lane Kenworthy University of Arizona. Retrieved 9 January 2014. Kenworthy's dissertation was supervised by Joel Rogers, Erik Olin Wright, and Wolfgang Streeck.
Kenworthy worked as assistant professor of sociology at Rochester Institute of Technology 1994–1995 and held the same position at East Carolina University 1995–2000. He worked as assistant professor at Emory University 2000–2004. As of 2014, he is a professor of sociology and political science at the University of Arizona.
Kenworthy played forward for the United States national youth soccer team.Lawrie Mifflin and Michael Katz (28 September 1982) SCOUTING; Ivy League Goal New York Times. Retrieved 9 January 2014
Income inequality About income inequality, Kenworthy wrote: As best I can tell from the available data, income inequality hasn't reduced economic growth. It hasn't hindered employment. It may or may not have played a role in fostering economic crises, including the Great Recession. It hasn't reduced income growth for poor households. [...] It may or may not have reduced equality of opportunity. [...] Income inequality has reduced middle-class household income growth. It very likely has increased disparities in education, health, and happiness in the United States. And it has reduced residential mixing in the U.S. Christopher Wimer of Columbia wrote a scathing review for the journal Social Forces about Kenworthy's book Is Inequality the Problem?, concluding: It looks like the typical Social Forces book review is about 1,000 words. I’m going to stop this one early and go out for that walk. Apologies to the editors for submitting my review late.
Selected bibliography Books In Search of National Economic Success (1995) SAGE. Egalitarian Capitalism: Jobs, Incomes, and Growth in Affluent Countries. (2004) Russell Sage Foundation. Jobs with Equality (2008) Oxford University Press, USA Progress for the Poor (2011) Oxford University Press, USA. Social Democratic America (2014) Oxford University Press, USA. Dylan Matthews (January 2014). This sociologist has a plan to make America more like Sweden The Washington Post. Social Democratic Capitalism (2019) Oxford University Press, USA. Is Inequality the Problem? (2025) Oxford University Press, USA.
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External links Official site Official page, U. of AZ