TY - GEN N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - Inequality and instabilitya study of the world economy just before the great crisis / DA - 2012. CY - New York : AU - Galbraith, James K. ET - 1st ed. CN - Proquest Ebook Central CN - HC79.I5 PB - Oxford University Press, PP - New York : PY - 2012. ID - 436318 KW - Income distribution. KW - Economic policy. KW - Globalization KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Economic development KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. SN - 9780199855667 (electronic bk.) TI - Inequality and instabilitya study of the world economy just before the great crisis / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=886538 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=886538 ER -