Inequality and the global economic crisis / / Douglas Dowd

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973744003321
• Autore: Dowd Douglas F (Douglas Fitzgerald), <1919-2017.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Pluto Press; New York, : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
• ISBN: 9781783716517; 1783716517; 9781849644372; 1849644373
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.2
• Soggetti: Financial crises; Income distribution; Equality - Economic aspects; Globalization - Economic aspects; Capitalism; Poverty; Big business
• 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. 271-282) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1. Inequality: An Introduction -- 2. Class Inequality and the Inequality of Political and Social Power -- 3. Inequality Based on Gender, "Race," Nationalism and Religion -- 4. Big Business and Inequality -- 5. Today's Inequality as Worsened by Consumerism and the Media -- 6. Globalization: Unintended Consequences, Inc. -- 7. Financialization: Las Vegas, Inc. -- 8. Militarism and Inequality -- 9: Inequality's Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers (I) -- Poverty -- Health Care -- 10. Inequality's Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers (II) -- Education -- Housing and the Homeless -- Nutrition and Hunger -- Opportunity -- Dignity, Morale, Self-Respect, and Family Life -- 11. Inequality's Interacting Consequences for the ; Economy, Democracy and Social Decency -- 12. Comparisons of Inequality and its Treatment Between the US and Western Europe -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Inequality has always been with us. With the growth of capitalism across the globe, inequalities of income, wealth and power became increasingly extreme. Written by economist Douglas Dowd, this book shows that the present banking crisis is the result of the growth of inequality across the globe. The expansion of the financial sector has brought incredible riches to a select few, at the expense of the majority. Inequality was ignored, or described as a necessary aspect of a booming global economy. With the collapse of the world markets, the fallacy of this position is clear. Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis shows how it is only by addressing inequality that we can secure the health of our economies in the future.--Publisher.