Inequality and the global economic crisis /

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Inequality has always been with us. With the growth of capitalism across the globe, inequalities of income, wealth and power became increasingly extreme. Written by economist Douglas Dowd, this book shows that the present banking crisis is the result of the growth of inequality across the globe. The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dowd, Douglas F. (Douglas Fitzgerald), 1919-2017 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : New York : Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Temas:
Financial crises.
Income distribution.
Equality > Economic aspects.
Globalization > Economic aspects.
Capitalism.
Poverty.
Big business.
Poverty
Revenu > Répartition.
Mondialisation.
Pauvreté.
Grandes entreprises.
poverty.
globalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
Big business
Capitalism
Equality > Economic aspects
Financial crises
Globalization > Economic aspects
Income distribution
Weltwirtschaftskrise
Soziale Ungleichheit
Globalisierung
Wirtschaftskrise
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Inequality : an introduction
  • Class inequality and the inequality of political and social power
  • Inequality based on gender, "race," nationalism, and religion
  • Big business and inequality
  • Today's inequality as worsened by consumerism and the media
  • Globalization : unintended consequences, inc.
  • Financialization : Las Vegas, inc.
  • Militarism and inequality
  • Inequality's consequences for its victims and its victimizers (I) : poverty ; health care
  • Inequality's consequences for its victims and its victimizers (II) : education ; housing and the homeless ; nutrition and hunger ; opportunity ; dignity, morale, self-respect and family life
  • Inequality's interacting consequences for the economy, democracy, and social decency
  • Comparison of inequality and its treatment in the US and Western Europe
  • Epilogue.

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