Inequality and instability
Subtitle: a study of the world economy just before the Great Crisis
By: James K. Galbraith
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199855650
Subjects: Income distribution; Social aspects; Economic development; Research; Globalization; Economic policy; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Power (Social sciences)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The physics and ethics of inequality; title: The need for new inequality measures; title: Pay inequality and world development; title: Estimating the inequality of household incomes; title: Economic inequality and political regimes; title: The geography of inequality in America, 1969 to 2007; title: State-level income inequality and American elections; title: Inequality and unemployment in Europe : a question of levels; title: European wages and the flexibility thesis; title: Globalization and inequality in China; title: Finance and power in Argentina and Brazil; title: Inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse; title: Economic inequality and the world crisis.