Worlds Apart : Measuring International and Global Inequality /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Milanović, Branko
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Inegalite globale.
Developpement economique.
Mondialisation.
Inegalite sociale.
Repartition du revenu.
Einkommensverteilung
Weltwirtschaft
Income distribution.
Globalization.
Equality.
Economic development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
globalism.
economic development.
Revenu > Repartition.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The promise of the twentieth century
  • A topic whose time has come
  • pt. 1. Setting the stage.
  • The three concepts of inequality defined
  • Other differences between the concepts
  • International and world inequality compared
  • pt. 2. Inequality among countries.
  • Rising differences in per capita incomes
  • Regional convergence, divergence, or ... "vergence"
  • The shape of international GDP per capita distribution
  • Winners and losers: increasing dominance of the west
  • pt. 3. Global inequality.
  • Concept 2 inequality: decreasing in the past twenty years
  • High global inequality: no trend?
  • A world without a middle class
  • pt. 4. Concluding comments
  • The three concepts of inequality in historical perspective
  • Why does global inequality matter and what to do about it?

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