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1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 li. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) |
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Income distribution.
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Income distribution. |
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Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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Globalization -- Social aspects. |
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Power (Social sciences)
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Power (Social sciences) |
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Economic development -- Research.
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Economic development -- Research. |
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
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| Chronological Term |
2008-2009 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Galbraith, James K. Inequality and instability. 1st ed. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2012 9780199855650 (DLC) 2011026835 (OCoLC)734002425 |
| ISBN |
9780199855667 (electronic book) |
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0199855668 (electronic book) |
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1280594047 |
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9781280594045 |
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9780199855650 |
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019985565X |
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