03157nam 22006494a 450 991082006850332120220505024522.00-674-26346-40-674-03698-010.4159/9780674036987(CKB)1000000000805563(OCoLC)651716785(CaPaEBR)ebrary10328844(SSID)ssj0000487384(PQKBManifestationID)12223437(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487384(PQKBWorkID)10442519(PQKB)10638416(SSID)ssj0000245579(PQKBManifestationID)12095347(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245579(PQKBWorkID)10177183(PQKB)11283561(MiAaPQ)EBC3300666(MiAaPQ)EBC3300600(DE-B1597)584863(DE-B1597)9780674036987(MiAaPQ)EBC7186223(Au-PeEL)EBL7186223(OCoLC)1312726579(EXLCZ)99100000000080556320040106d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA short history of distributive justice /Samuel FleischackerCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Pressc20041 online resource (205 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-01340-9 0-674-01831-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations --Introduction --1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith --2. The Eighteenth Century --3. From Babeuf to Rawls --Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThe 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.Distributive justiceDistributive justice.340.115Fleischacker Samuel676320MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820068503321A short history of distributive justice3957198UNINA