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Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Histories of Global Inequality: Introduction; Scraping By; Why This Book?; The Sudden Emergence of a New Concept?; The Deeper History of Global Inequality; Inequality Within and Beyond the Nation State; Inequality Research Today; New Approaches to Global Inequality Research; Inequality in the History of Economic and Political Thought; Historicizing Piketty: The Fall and Rise of Inequality Economics; The Centrality of Distribution in Classical Economics; Pillar I: The Theory of Marginal Productivity
Pillar II: The Consumerist Turn of Utility TheoryPillar III: Pareto Optimality; Conclusions; The Demise of the Radical Critique of Economic Inequality in Western Political Thought; Introduction; The Radical Republican Critique of Economic Inequality; The Ascendance of the Liberal Paradigm; Radical Republicanism and the Concept of Inequality; Products Before People: How Inequality Was Sidelined by Gross National Product; Introduction; Numbers in Politics; Kuznets's Approach to National Income; Keynes and the War; A Permanent Fix?; Post-War Challenges and the End of Inequality; Conclusion
Inequality by Numbers: The Making of a Global Political Issue?Inequality Knowledge; Global Insecurities: The Western Middle Class and Global Inequality; From the Global Justice Movement to Occupy Wall Street; Problematising the 99% Vision of Inequality; Inequality, Discrimination and Human Rights; Inequality and Post-War International Organization: Discrimination, the World Social Situation and the United Nations, 1948-1957; Discrimination as a United Nations Policy Mandate, 1948-1957; Inequality and the United Nations World Social Situation Reports, 1948-1957; Conclusion
"A Pragmatic Compromise between the Ideal and the Realistic": Debates over Human Rights, Global Distributive Justice and Minimum Core Obligations in the 1980sIntroduction; The Rise of "Global Inequality"; Background to Basic Needs, Rights and a Minimum Core; Debates over the Right to Food; Consolidation of "Minimum Core" Idea; Conclusion; Inequality in Global Disability Policies since the 1970s; Introduction; Inequality and the Global Disability Movement; The International Year of Disabled Persons (1981); Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (1993)
ConclusionProtection and Abuse: The Conundrum of Global Gender Inequality; The Gendered Universe of Inequality; Gender Inequality as Foundational; The Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation-A U.S. Example; The Inequality of Protection: From Coverture to Sexual Harassment; Coverture; Sexual Violence and Harassment; Conclusion; Inequality in an Age of Global Capitalism; Brewing Inequalities: Kenya's Smallholder Tea Farmers and the Developmentalist State in the Late-Colonial and Early-Independence Era; Discussions About Smallholder Tea Farmers; Paving the Way for Smallholder Tea Production
Pillar II: The Consumerist Turn of Utility TheoryPillar III: Pareto Optimality; Conclusions; The Demise of the Radical Critique of Economic Inequality in Western Political Thought; Introduction; The Radical Republican Critique of Economic Inequality; The Ascendance of the Liberal Paradigm; Radical Republicanism and the Concept of Inequality; Products Before People: How Inequality Was Sidelined by Gross National Product; Introduction; Numbers in Politics; Kuznets's Approach to National Income; Keynes and the War; A Permanent Fix?; Post-War Challenges and the End of Inequality; Conclusion
Inequality by Numbers: The Making of a Global Political Issue?Inequality Knowledge; Global Insecurities: The Western Middle Class and Global Inequality; From the Global Justice Movement to Occupy Wall Street; Problematising the 99% Vision of Inequality; Inequality, Discrimination and Human Rights; Inequality and Post-War International Organization: Discrimination, the World Social Situation and the United Nations, 1948-1957; Discrimination as a United Nations Policy Mandate, 1948-1957; Inequality and the United Nations World Social Situation Reports, 1948-1957; Conclusion
"A Pragmatic Compromise between the Ideal and the Realistic": Debates over Human Rights, Global Distributive Justice and Minimum Core Obligations in the 1980sIntroduction; The Rise of "Global Inequality"; Background to Basic Needs, Rights and a Minimum Core; Debates over the Right to Food; Consolidation of "Minimum Core" Idea; Conclusion; Inequality in Global Disability Policies since the 1970s; Introduction; Inequality and the Global Disability Movement; The International Year of Disabled Persons (1981); Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (1993)
ConclusionProtection and Abuse: The Conundrum of Global Gender Inequality; The Gendered Universe of Inequality; Gender Inequality as Foundational; The Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation-A U.S. Example; The Inequality of Protection: From Coverture to Sexual Harassment; Coverture; Sexual Violence and Harassment; Conclusion; Inequality in an Age of Global Capitalism; Brewing Inequalities: Kenya's Smallholder Tea Farmers and the Developmentalist State in the Late-Colonial and Early-Independence Era; Discussions About Smallholder Tea Farmers; Paving the Way for Smallholder Tea Production