The New Geography of Global Income Inequality
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: April 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780674010673
Subjects: International economics; Labour economics; Macroeconomics; Population & demography; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Economics - Comparative; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Sociology; Political Science; Globalization; Social Science / Demography; Economic Conditions; Demography; Income distribution
Description: "The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations.

Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations). Firebaugh claims that this historic transition represents a new geography of global income inequality in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.