Research Catalog

Title

Global inequality : a new approach for the age of globalization / Branko Milanovic.

Author

Milanović, Branko

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2016].

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Details

Description

ix, 299 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

• "One of the world's leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice. Global Inequality takes us back hundreds of years, and as far around the world as data allow, to show that inequality moves in cycles, fueled by war and disease, technological disruption, access to education, and redistribution. The recent surge of inequality in the West has been driven by the revolution in technology, just as the Industrial Revolution drove inequality 150 years ago. But even as inequality has soared within nations, it has fallen dramatically among nations, as middle-class incomes in China and India have drawn closer to the stagnating incomes of the middle classes in the developed world. A more open migration policy would reduce global inequality even further. Both American and Chinese inequality seem well entrenched and self-reproducing, though it is difficult to predict if current trends will be derailed by emerging plutocracy, populism, or war. For those who want to understand how we got where we are, where we may be heading, and what policies might help reverse that course, Milanovic's compelling explanation is the ideal place to start."--Provided by publisher.
• The recent surge of inequality in the West has been driven by the revolution in technology, just as the Industrial Revolution drove inequality 150 years ago. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, Milanović explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice.

Subjects

• China
• Wirtschaftsentwicklung
• Income distribution
• United States
• Equality
• Globalization > Economic aspects
• Globalization > Social aspects
• Wirtschaft
• Technischer Fortschritt
• Globalisierung
• Ungleichheit

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The rise of the global middle class and global plutocrats -- Inequality within countries -- the Kuznets waves: explaining the evolution of within-country inequality over the very long-term -- Inequality among countries -- from Karl Marx to Frantz Fanon, and then back to Marx? -- Global inequality in this century and the next -- What next? ten short reflections on the future of income inequality and globalization.

Call Number

JFD 16-4881

ISBN

• 9780674737136 (alk. paper)
• 067473713X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2015043601

OCLC

931226822

Author

Milanović, Branko, author.

Title

Global inequality : a new approach for the age of globalization / Branko Milanovic.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2016].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-4881