Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography, or perhaps ignorance of the right policies? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. In this book the …
"A GlassHouse book."
Para Thomas Piketty, los debates intelectuales y políticos sobre la distribución de la riqueza se han alimentado sobre todo de grandes prejuicios y de muy pocos datos. En ese campo de batalla han convergido ideas sobre la igualdad entre los ciudadanos, el derecho de las personas…
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…
"Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called 'equality-efficiency trade-off' - has proven difficult to document. The data suggest, instead, that the extraordinary levels of economic inequality now experienced …
Desde un punto de vista político, la pobreza se suele ver como un problema de orden público (p.e. jóvenes desempleados que pueden cometer delitos), pero tratar la pobreza como un problema criminal oculta las raíces sociales de la desigualdad que son una combinación de una filoso…
"Thomas Piketty wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic inequality over time. Piketty begins by explaining how inequality evolves and how economists measure it. In subsequent cha…
There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather, it was the result of…
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.
