Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling--mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues--have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future.
An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent--and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.
Автор: Steed, Christopher Название: A question of inequality : the politics of equal worth ISBN: 1788311531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788311533 Издательство: Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 108670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Inequality is widening. In the twenty-first century, the gap between those who have more and those who have less is growing: 1 per cent of the world owns as much as the other 99 per cent. Should we be worried? Christopher Steed, author of the acclaimed A Question of Worth, argues that inequality does indeed matter: that economic fairness is one of the defining issues of our time. In a world conditioned by social media, enabling intensified social comparison, the anxieties and effects of contemporary inequality are a cause for huge concern. Despite a wealth of research around inequality most studies have concentrated on its quantitative aspects. In A Question of Inequality, Christopher Steed is concerned with exploring why inequality matters, what it means for those who find themselves victims of it, and what can be done about it. He probes what it means to experience inequality, drawing out case studies on the effects of poverty. In proposing a theory of social relativity the author provides new insights into the effects and meaning of inequality and makes an original and important contribution to a key issue facing the world today.
Автор: Zoya Nissanov Название: Economic Growth and the Middle Class in an Economy in Transition ISBN: 3319510932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319510934 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 102480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book studies the evolution of the middle class in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. The first part of the book is devoted to a discussion of the concept of middle class and a description of the economic situation in Russia during the transition period.
Название: What drives inequality? ISBN: 1789733782 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789733785 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 105690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: There is a great deal of coverage on inequality, and the key determinants of recent trends are increasingly well-documented. However, much less is known about the driving forces behind international differences in inequality.
Автор: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Название: Research on economic inequality : poverty, inequality and welfare ISBN: 1787145220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787145221 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 123310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume presents ten chapters that discuss the economics of poverty, inequality and welfare. They address how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to deliver social mobility. They consider both theoretical and empirical topics with special reference to developing countries.
Автор: Kakwani, Nanak (visiting Professor Of Economics, Visiting Professor Of Economics, China Institute For Income Distribution At Beijing Normal University Название: Economic inequality and poverty ISBN: 0198852843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198852841 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 61250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Economic Inequality and Poverty examines how methods for measuring inequality and poverty have evolved. Kakwani and Son draw on household surveys to demonstate a framework based on economic variables that can be applied to draw up evidence-based policies.
Автор: Li Название: Rising Inequality in China ISBN: 1107529263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107529267 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 46470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book, a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in China (2008), examines changes from 2002 to 2007 in the Chinese distribution of income and poverty, and analyzes factors contributing to recent trends in inequality, providing insights into the potentially far-reaching consequences for China`s economy, politics and society.
Название: Inequality, redistribution and mobility ISBN: 180043040X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781800430402 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 112470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Research on Economic Inequality`s 28th volume provides original research on how inequality is affected by redistribution, growth, mobility and educational opportunities. Additional papers discuss poverty, welfare and wage discrimination.
Название: Inequality, taxation, and intergenerational transmission ISBN: 1787564584 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787564589 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 116530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Research on Economic Inequality, volume 26, primarily contains papers presented at the 8th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The papers cover such topics as the effect of inheritance taxation on the "pre-distribution" of income, and tax progressivity under alternative inequality definitions.
Автор: Feridoon Koohi-Kamali Название: Exploring Roots of Inequality in Latin America and Peru ISBN: 1433189895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433189890 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 44640.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This book explores Latin American inequality broadly in terms of its impact on the region's development and specifically with two country studies from Peru on earnings inequality and child labor as a consequence of inequality for child labor. The first chapter provides substantial recent undated analysis of the critical thesis of deindustrialization for Latin America. The second chapter provides an approach to measuring labor market discrimination that departs from the current treatment of unobservable influences in the literature. The third chapter examines a much-neglected topic of child labor using a panel data set specifically on children.
The book is appropriate for courses on economic development and labor economics and for anyone interested in inequality, development and applied econometrics.
Автор: Mohammad Reza Farzanegan; Pooya Alaedini Название: Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran ISBN: 1349950246 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349950249 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 102480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades. During this period, income distribution and economic welfare were affected by the 1979 Revolution, the eight-year war with Iraq, post-war privatization and economic liberalization initiatives carried out under the Rafsanjani and Khatami administrations, the ascendance of a populist economic platform under the Ahmadinejad administration, and the lifting of energy and financial sanctions under the Rouhani administration. Featuring a mix of scholars, including Iranian academics who experienced these changes and are publishing in English for the first time, this collection offers quantitative and descriptive studies of the country's post-revolutionary economic development and disparities. In most chapters, a hypothesis is developed from existing theories or observations, which is then tested using available data. This unique combination of new voices, academic as well as personal experiences, and scientific methods will be a valuable addition to the library of the scholars of modern Iran’s economy and society.
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