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.
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"Does globalization mean a race to the bottom in social standards and the inevitable decay of the welfare state? Ramesh Mishra - a leading authority on social policy - examines the implications of globalization in respect of social policy and social standards in advanced industr…
Building on an account of the principal contradictions and dilemmas of capital as a social relation, Bob Jessop explores interrelated aspects of all capitalist welfare regimes.
This volume suggests that the recent rise in income inequality was caused to a considerable extent by a policy-driven worsening in factorial income distribution, wage spread, and spatial inequality. In this regard, the volume discusses the distributive impact of reforms in trade…
Research report on the future of the automobile and the motor vehicle industry in OECD countries - describes the historical framework; examines energy costs, air pollution and infrastructure constraints, and trends in Innovation and in the supply and demand of automobiles; discu…
Few would dispute that we live in an unequal and unjust world, but what causes this inequality to persist? Danny Dorling claims in this book that in rich countries social inequality is no longer caused by not having enough resources to share, but by unrecognised and unacknowledg…
Provides historical overviews of efforts to pass basic income guarantee (BIG) legislation in their respective countries and/or across regions of the globe. Addresses specific substantive issues such as: who were the main people and groups involved in support of or against such l…
"President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of experts to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)-the most widely used…
