Global inequality : patterns and explanations
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Global inequality : patterns and explanations
Polity, 2007
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Description
What is global inequality? How can it be measured? What are the major trends and patterns? What are the implications of global inequality for the world economy and multilateral governance? What role does and should inequality play in national and international policy-making?
In this comprehensive overview, the authors address these key questions. They examine the major issues that need to be confronted in conceptualizing, measuring and analysing contemporary patterns of global inequality. In addition, they explore the implications of these patterns for politics and public policy. In explaining the complex global patterns of social stratification, they highlight an intensive debate about whether and to what extent inequality matters. The book also addresses this debate, and seeks to set out the major alternative positions.
The book's authors include many of the most distinguished figures in the field, including David Dollar, Gosta Esping-Andersen, Nancy Fraser, James K. Galbraith, Ravi Kanbur, Branko Milanovic, Thomas W. Pogge, Bob Sutcliffe, Grahame F. Thompson, Anthony J. Venables, and Robert H. Wade.
This book will be of great interest to students in politics, sociology and international relations as well as to all those interested in this key topic.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors. Editors' Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
1 Introduction.
David Held and Ayse Kaya.
2 Globalization and Inequality.
Branko Milanovic.
3 The Unequalled and Unequal Twentieth Century.
Bob Sutcliffe.
4 Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980.
David Dollar.
5 Should We Worry About Income Inequality?.
Robert H. Wade.
6 Why Inequality Matters.
Thomas W. Pogge.
7 Global Inequality and Global Macro Economics.
James K. Galbraith.
8 Global Inequality, the 'Great Divergence' and Supra-National Regionalization.
Grahame F. Thompson.
9 Spatial Disparities and Economic Development.
Ravi Kanbur and Anthony J. Venables.
10 More Inequality and Fewer Opportunities?.
Structural Determinants and Human Agency in the Dynamics of Income Distribution.
Gosta Esping-Andersen.
11 Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World.
Nancy Fraser.
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