@article{1478395,
      recid = {1478395},
      author = {Firebaugh, Glenn, },
      title = {The New Geography of Global Income Inequality /},
      pages = {1 online resource (272 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478395},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674036895},
}