The New Geography of Global Income Inequality / Glenn Firebaugh.
Firebaugh, Glenn, author.
2009
HC79.I5 -- F565 2003eb
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Title The New Geography of Global Income Inequality / Glenn Firebaugh.
Author Firebaugh, Glenn, author.
ISBN 9780674036895
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674036895
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2006
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (272 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674036895 doi
Call Number HC79.I5 -- F565 2003eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 339.2/1
Summary The 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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Part I. The New Geography Hypothesis
Chapter 1. Massive Global Income Inequality: When Did It Arise and Why Does It Matter?
Chapter 2. The Reversal of Historical Inequality Trends
Part II. Measurement
Chapter 3. How Is National Income Measured, and Can We Trust the Data?
Chapter 4. Inequality: What It Is and How It Is Measured
Part III. Evidence
Chapter 5. What We Already Know
Chapter 6. Income Inequality across Nations in the Late Twentieth Century
Chapter 7. Weighted versus Unweighted Inequality: Key to the Divergence Debate
Chapter 8. Continental Divides: Asia, Africa, and the Reversal of the Trend
Chapter 9. Change in Income Inequality within Nations
Part IV. Explanations and Predictions
Chapter 10. Causes of the Inequality Transition
Chapter 11. The Future of Global Income Inequality
Epilogue: Does Rising Income Bring Greater Happiness ?
Notes
References
Index

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