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Author
Series
Research on economic inequality volume 16
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A timely examination by a leading social scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality. Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. While conservatives look at poverty and see its roots in personal failures and liberals attribute it to a lack of opportunity, what both sides miss is that...
67) The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution: evaluation techniques and tools
Publisher
Copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press, New York
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Research on economic inequality volume 20
Publisher
Emerald
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The effect of globalization on poverty and inequality is a key issue in contemporary international politics yet it has been neglected in international relations and comparative politics literatures. Arie M. Kacowicz explores the complex relationship between globalization and the distribution of wealth as a political problem in international relations, analyzing them through the prism of poverty and inequality. He develops a political framework (an...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
"Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming-both the richest county in the United States and the county with the nation's highest level of income inequality-to investigate interconnected questions about money, nature, and...
Author
Series
Research on economic inequality volume Volume 22
Publisher
Emerald
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Everything you know about income inequality, poverty and other measures of economic well-being in America is wrong. In measuring income inequality, poverty and other indexes of well-being our government does not count two-thirds of all transfer payments that are received or any of the taxes paid. When we get our facts straight poverty has virtually been eliminated, income inequality is lower than it was in 1947 and America is still the great land...