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Globalization and the distribution of wealth : the Latin American experience, 1982-2008 /
"The effect of globalization on poverty and inequality is a key issue in contemporary international politics yet it has been neglected in international relations and comparative politics literatures. Arie M. Kacowicz explores the complex relationship between globalization and the distribution o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures; Tables; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 Globalization and the distribution of wealth: problems and definitions; Introduction; The problematique and its current salience; Existing debates over globalization and the distribution of wealth: ideological and methodological; The missing link: developing a political intermestic model; Defining globalization and the distribution of wealth; What is globalization?; Focus on economic globalization; Political effects of economic globalization; Distribution of wealth: poverty and inequality; What is poverty?
- Explaining poverty: two models and three levels of analysisWhat is inequality?; Methodology and preview of the book; Why Latin America and Argentina in particular?; How to measure globalization?; How to measure poverty and inequality?; A preview of the book; Conclusions; 2 The ethical and practical implications of poverty and inequality; The ethical dimension: human rights and distributive justice; Poverty as a global moral problem; Poverty and the logic of human rights; Inequality and the logic of distributive justice.
- The prudential/pragmatic dimension: issues of security and political economySecurity arguments; Political economy arguments; Conclusions; 3 The political dimension of the links between globalization and the distribution of wealth; The links between globalization and the distribution of wealth; The Liberal argument; The Radical argument; The Realist/statist argument; The causal mechanisms between globalization and the distribution of wealth: reconciling the three approaches?; The globalization-growth-inequality-poverty causal chain.
- The globalization-capital and labour mobility-poverty causal chainThe globalization-technology-poverty causal chain; The intermestic model: bringing politics back to the fore; Strong and weak states within the intermestic model; Levels of analysis of the intermestic model; Hypotheses of the intermestic model; Explaining the rationale of the hypotheses; Conclusions; 4 The Latin American experience, 1982-2008; The historical record: Latin America and globalization; The period up to 1982; The 1982-2008 period: Latin Americas reinsertion into the global economy.
- The Latin American puzzle: poverty, low growth, and the persistence of high inequalityThe evolution of poverty in Latin America, 1982-2008; The evolution (and persistence) of inequality in Latin America, 1982-2008; Explaining poverty and inequality in Latin America; Links between globalization and the distribution of wealth in Latin America: are the paradigms relevant?; The Liberal argument and the Latin American experience; The Radical argument and the Latin American experience; The statist (Realist) argument and the Latin American experience.