Inequality beyond globalization : economic changes social transformations and the dynamics of inequality ; [ ... international conference in June 2008 at the University of Neuchâtel] This volume debates the complex nature of the relationships between globalization social and economic transformations and growing inequalities. Employing a global world historical and comparative perspective the 16 articles brought together in this volume deal with three central questions: Firstly the question of the spatio temporal evolution and variations of growing inequalities secondly the relative importance of globalization as compared to other factors explaining growing inequalities and thirdly institutional variations of inequality dynamics and globalization impacts.