Global inequality : a new approach for the age of globalization /
The recent surge of inequality in the West has been driven by the revolution in technology, just as the Industrial Revolution drove inequality 150 years ago. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, Milanović explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
Publication Dates: | 2016. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
The recent surge of inequality in the West has been driven by the revolution in technology, just as the Industrial Revolution drove inequality 150 years ago. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, Milanović explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice. |
Carrier Form: | ix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 265-282) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780674737136 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 067473713X (hardback : alkaline paper) |
Index Number: | HM821 |
CLC: | F113.8 |
Call Number: | F113.8/M637-1 |
Contents: |
The rise of the global middle class and global plutocrats -- Inequality within countries: introducing Kuznets waves to explain long-term trends in inequality -- Inequality among countries: from Karl Marx to Frantz Fanon, and then back to Marx? -- Global inequality in this century and the next -- What next?: ten short reflections on the future of income inequality and globalization. |