Globalization and the distribution of wealth : the Latin American experience, 1982-2008 / / Arie M. Kacowicz [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786034503321
• Autore: Kacowicz Arie Marcelo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-107-23686-X; 1-139-61084-8; 1-139-60909-2; 1-139-61270-0; 1-139-62572-1; 1-139-22711-4; 1-139-61642-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: POL011000
• Disciplina: 339.2098/09045
• Soggetti: Income distribution - Latin America; Globalization - Latin America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 Globalization and the distribution of wealth: problems and definitions; Introduction; The problematique and its current salience; Existing debates over globalization and the distribution of wealth: ideological and methodological; The missing link: developing a political intermestic model; Defining globalization and the distribution of wealth; What is globalization?; Focus on economic globalization; Political effects of economic globalization; Distribution of wealth: poverty and inequality; What is poverty?; Explaining poverty: two models and three levels of analysisWhat is inequality?; Methodology and preview of the book; Why Latin America and Argentina in particular?; How to measure globalization?; How to measure poverty and inequality?; A preview of the book; Conclusions; 2 The ethical and practical implications of poverty and inequality; The ethical dimension: human rights and distributive justice; Poverty as a global moral problem; Poverty and the logic of human rights; Inequality ; and the logic of distributive justice; The prudential/pragmatic dimension: issues of security and political economySecurity arguments; Political economy arguments; Conclusions; 3 The political dimension of the links between globalization and the distribution of wealth; The links between globalization and the distribution of wealth; The Liberal argument; The Radical argument; The Realist/statist argument; The causal mechanisms between globalization and the distribution of wealth: reconciling the three approaches?; The globalization-growth-inequality-poverty causal chain; The globalization-capital and labour mobility-poverty causal chainThe globalization-technology-poverty causal chain; The intermestic model: bringing politics back to the fore; Strong and weak states within the intermestic model; Levels of analysis of the intermestic model; Hypotheses of the intermestic model; Explaining the rationale of the hypotheses; Conclusions; 4 The Latin American experience, 1982-2008; The historical record: Latin America and globalization; The period up to 1982; The 1982-2008 period: Latin Americas reinsertion into the global economy; The Latin American puzzle: poverty, low growth, and the persistence of high inequalityThe evolution of poverty in Latin America, 1982-2008; The evolution (and persistence) of inequality in Latin America, 1982-2008; Explaining poverty and inequality in Latin America; Links between globalization and the distribution of wealth in Latin America: are the paradigms relevant?; The Liberal argument and the Latin American experience; The Radical argument and the Latin American experience; The statist (Realist) argument and the Latin American experience; The intermestic model: bringing politics back to the fore in Latin America
• Sommario/riassunto: The effects of globalization on poverty and inequality are a key issue in contemporary international politics, yet they have been neglected in international relations and comparative politics literatures. Arie M. Kacowicz explores the complex relationships between globalization and the distribution of wealth as a political problem in international relations, analyzing them through the prism of poverty and inequality. He develops a political framework (an 'intermestic model') which captures the interaction between the international and the domestic domains and explains those effects with a particular emphasis upon the state and its relations with society. He also specifies the different hypotheses about the possible links between globalization and the distribution of wealth and tests them in the context of Latin America during the years 1982-2008, with a particular focus on Argentina and the deep crisis it experienced in 2001-2.