"The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton - one of the foremost exper…
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Human Development is widely recognised as the overriding goal of development, yet its realization is challenged by growing inequality, macro-economic fluctuations, and recurrent financial crises. This edited collection reflects on the work of Richard Jolly and includes contribut…
"La croissance économique est la religion du monde moderne. Elle est l'élixir qui apaise les conflits, la promesse du progrès indéfini. Elle offre une solution au drame ordinaire de la vie humaine qui est de vouloir ce qu'on n'a pas. Hélas, en Occident du moins, la croissance es…
"La croissance économique est la religion du monde moderne. Elle est l'élixir qui apaise les conflits, la promesse du progrès indéfini. Elle offre une solution au drame ordinaire de la vie humaine qui est de vouloir ce qu'on n'a pas. Hélas, en Occident du moins, la croissance es…
Discusses the causes of inequality, including unjust and irresponsible economic policies and misguided priorities, and offers suggestions to help the United States become a more fair and equitable society. --Publisher's description.
Discusses the causes of inequality, including unjust and irresponsible economic policies and misguided priorities, and offers suggestions to help the United States become a more fair and equitable society.--Publisher information.
Demonstrates that finance is the driveshaft that links inequality to economic instability.
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts…
Comprehensive analysis of economic inequality in developed countries. The contributors give their view on the state-of-the-art scientific research in their fields and add their own visions of future research.
Comprehensive analysis of economic inequality in developed countries. The contributors give their view on the state-of-the-art scientific research in their fields and add their own visions of future research.
L'Homme inutile: Du bon usage del'économie
by Cairn.info, Giraud, Pierre-Noël
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Les « damnés de la terre » aujourd'hui, ce sont les hommes inutiles : non pas ceux qui sont surexploités et dont la force de travail est sous-payée, mais ceux qui ne trouvent pas à l'employer ou si peu, ceux qui - chômeurs, travailleurs précaires, paysans sans terre - sont rédui…
This title challenges the assumption that a 'free' global market will afford the same opportunities to both rich and poor states. Drawing on a number of 19th and 20th century thinkers, Ben Selwyn argues instead that class relations are the central cause of poverty and inequality…
"Neo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. In this book Guy Standing introduces what he calls the Precariat - a growing number of people across the world l…
L'inégalité, ou : pourquoi y a-t-il des riches et des pauvres? A cette question essentielle de l'économie, Pierre-Noël Giraud apporte une réponse originale : plutôt que de mettre en rapport inégalité sociale et croissance dans chaque pays, il préfère embrasser, sur deux siècles,…
"Both on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its problems, and its place i…
"Both on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its problems, and its place i…