1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778454803321

Autore

Fleischacker Samuel

Titolo

A short history of distributive justice [[electronic resource] /] / Samuel Fleischacker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-674-26346-4

0-674-03698-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

340.115

Soggetti

Distributive justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith -- 2. The Eighteenth Century -- 3. From Babeuf to Rawls -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations). Firebaugh claims that this historic transition represents a new geography of global income inequality in the twenty-first century. This book documents the new geography, describes its causes, and explains why other analysts have missed one of the defining features of our era--a transition in inequality that is reducing the importance of where a person is born in determining his or her future well-being.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996681479603316

Titolo

The humble advice of the assembly of divines now by authority sitting at Westminster : concerning a larger catechisme presented by them lately to both Houses of Parliament : a certain number of copies are ordered to be printed only for the use of the members of both Houses and of the assembly of divines to the end that may advise thereupon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by A.M., 1647

Descrizione fisica

Testo elettronico (PDF) ([3], 58 p.)

Disciplina

262.42

Soggetti

Presbiterianesimo

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Una stampa preliminare di "The larger catechism"

Riproduzione dell'originale presso la Trinity College Library, Dublin University