The Economics of Inequality

DescriptionDuring the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most coun...

'Economics for People and the Planet' brings together recent essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality, and the economy.Part One, Ret...

Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond eco...

The first book to reveal how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled experti...

Sociologist Mike Savage shows how economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts, challenging the framework of liberal de...

Reducere. Las consecuencias de la desigualdad son conocidas: altos ndices de criminalidad, problemas sanitarios, menores niveles de educaci n, de cohesi n so...

Capitalism and Inequality rejects the popular view that attributes the recent surge in inequality to a failure of market institutions. Bringing tog...

Reducere. The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has l...

DescriptionA compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthCapital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most p...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionIn a context of increased politicization led by state and federal policymakers, corporate reformers, and for-profit educational organiza...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Falina EnriquezIllustration(s): 11 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 280Publication date:...

Education is thought to be the route out of poverty, but history disagrees. Cristina Groeger explores the Gilded Age origins of this idea and shows...

This book links financialization and income inequality and studies the dynamic of financialization in OIC countries empirically. Readers learn how ...

Despite growing discussions on the relationship between sustainability and finance, so far little attention has been given to the relation linking ...

Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AGAuthor(s): Tahereh Alavi HojjatIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; ...

A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in...