Utilizando numerosas analogías con el lenguaje de la música, el autor investiga el desarrollo de la autoestima en una sociedad desigual, cómo esa autoestima debe estar equilibrada con los sentimientos hacia los demás, y cómo el respeto mutuo puede forjar vínculos por encima de l…
This book advances thinking in the area of human development by analysing its relation with inequality and macro-economic policy. It presents a new framework for a pro-growth pro-human development macro-economics, including suggestions for the global management of technology and…
"The fundamental question of political theory, one which precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. Is human cooperation feasible without a political authority enforcing it? Or do we need a state to live together? This questi…
Offers new policies in technology, employment, social security, capital sharing, and taxation that intend to narrow the income gap, defending them against the common arguments and excuses for inaction.
"G. A. Cohen was one of the world's leading political theorists. He was noted, in particular, for his contributions to the literature of egalitarian justice. Cohen's classic writings offer one of the most influential responses to the currency of the egalitarian justice question …
"In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging nations such as China, India…
As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can t afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others, through the control of prop…