LEADER 03157nam 22006494a 450 001 9910820068503321 005 20220505024522.0 010 $a0-674-26346-4 010 $a0-674-03698-0 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674036987 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805563 035 $a(OCoLC)651716785 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10328844 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487384 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12223437 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487384 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10442519 035 $a(PQKB)10638416 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000245579 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12095347 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245579 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10177183 035 $a(PQKB)11283561 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300666 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300600 035 $a(DE-B1597)584863 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674036987 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7186223 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7186223 035 $a(OCoLC)1312726579 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805563 100 $a20040106d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA short history of distributive justice /$fSamuel Fleischacker 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (205 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-01340-9 311 0 $a0-674-01831-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith --$t2. The Eighteenth Century --$t3. From Babeuf to Rawls --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aDistributive justice 615 0$aDistributive justice. 676 $a340.115 700 $aFleischacker$b Samuel$0676320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820068503321 996 $aA short history of distributive justice$93957198 997 $aUNINA