Inequality and instability [[electronic resource] ] : a study of the world economy just before the great crisis / / James K. Galbraith
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Galbraith James K
|
| Titolo: |
Inequality and instability [[electronic resource] ] : a study of the world economy just before the great crisis / / James K. Galbraith
|
| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 339.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Income distribution |
| Economic policy | |
| Globalization - Social aspects | |
| Power (Social sciences) | |
| Economic development - Research | |
| Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The physics and ethics of inequality -- The need for new inequality measures -- Pay inequality and world development -- Estimating the inequality of household incomes -- Economic inequality and political regimes -- The geography of inequality in America, 1969 to 2007 -- State-level income inequality and American elections -- Inequality and unemployment in Europe : a question of levels -- European wages and the flexibility thesis -- Globalization and inequality in China -- Finance and power in Argentina and Brazil -- Inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse -- Economic inequality and the world crisis. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | As Wall Street rose to dominate the U.S. economy, income and pay inequalities in America came to dance to the tune of the credit cycle. As the reach of financial markets extended across the globe, interest rates, debt, and debt crises became the dominant forces driving the rise of economic inequality almost everywhere. Thus the ""super-bubble"" that investor George Soros identified in rich countries for the two decades after 1980 was a super-crisis for the 99 percent-not just in the U.S. but the entire world.Inequality and Instability demonstrates that finance is the driveshaft that links ineq |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Inequality and instability |
| ISBN: | 0-19-993086-4 |
| 0-19-026137-4 | |
| 1-280-59404-7 | |
| 9786613623874 | |
| 0-19-985566-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910649372703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |