Worlds Apart : Measuring International and Global Inequality.
We are used to thinking about inequality within countries--about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance. But what about inequality between all citizens of the world? Worlds Apart addresses just how to measure global inequality among individuals, and shows that inequality is shaped by com...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: The Promise of the Twentieth Century; Introduction: A Topic Whose Time Has Come; Part I: Setting the Stage; 1: The Three Concepts of Inequality Defined; 2: Other Differences between the Concepts; 3: International and World Inequality Compared; Part II: Inequality Among Countries; 4: Rising Differences in Per Capita Incomes; 5: Regional Convergence, Divergence, or ... "Vergence"; 6: The Shape of International GDP Per Capita Distribution; 7: Winners and Losers: Increasing Dominance of the West; Part III: Global Inequality.
- 8: Concept 2 Inequality: Decreasing in the Past Twenty Years9: High Global Inequality: No Trend?; 10: A World without a Middle Class; Part IV: Concluding Comments; 11: The Three Concepts of Inequality in Historical Perspective; 12: Why Does Global Inequality Matter and What to Do about It?; Appendix 1; Notes; References; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects.