Warum sind einige Nationen reich und andere arm? Wodurch entsteht die krasse Ungleichheit in unserer heutigen Welt? Wie soll man der Ungleichheit begegnen? Starökonom Daron Acemoglu und Harvard-Politologe James Robinson geben eine ebenso schlüssige wie eindrucksvolle Antwort auf…
""Globalization" has become a loaded term. Should we in the West believe, literally, that trade with poor nations can be blamed for our "impoverishment"? In this book, Daniel Cohen claims that there is practically no foundation for such an alarmist position. We need to reverse t…
"Globalization is characterized by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this global poverty is residual: as globalization deepens, the poor will be lifted out of destitution. The policies of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO echo this beli…
"Globalization is characterized by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this global poverty is residual: as globalization deepens, the poor will be lifted out of destitution. The policies of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO echo this beli…
"Globalization is characterized by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this global poverty is residual: as globalization deepens, the poor will be lifted out of destitution. The policies of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO echo this beli…
Was bedeutet "soziale Ungleichheit", wie wird dieses durchaus wandelbare Konstrukt von verschiedenen Ansätzen und in verschiedenen Jahrzehnten theoretisch konzeptioniert? Welche Vorstellungen über das - insbesondere deutsche - Ungleichheitsgefüge (z.B. Zwiebel oder Haus) kennzei…
Was bedeutet "soziale Ungleichheit", wie wird dieses durchaus wandelbare Konstrukt von verschiedenen Ansätzen und in verschiedenen Jahrzehnten theoretisch konzeptioniert? Welche Vorstellungen über das - insbesondere deutsche - Ungleichheitsgefüge (z.B. Zwiebel oder Haus) kennzei…
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…
REVISED EDITION NOW AVAILABLE New Foreword by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett, authors of The spirit level Afterword by Daniel Dorling updates developments in the last year Few would dispute that we live in an unequal and unjust world, but what causes this inequality to persist…
