Germany, 21–22 Gilded Age, 29, 77 Gini coefficient, 8, 15, 16, 17, 77, 91 globalization, 21–22 Goldin, Claudia, 115–16 Goldsmith, Raymond, 116, 119–21 Gordon, Robert, 23, 34 government spending, 20 Great Crash, The (Galbraith), ...
While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention to the middle class, a segment often not addressed in inequality literature.
This book explores income inequality across five main headings. It starts by explaining some key terms in the inequality debate. It then examines recent trends and explains why income inequality varies between countries.
Amid growing anxieties about the economic prospects of the middle class, Income Inequality: The Canadian Story will inform the public discourse on this issue of central concern for all Canadians."--Publisher's website.
Annotation This book explores income inequality across five main headings. It starts by explaining some key terms in the inequality debate. It then examines recent trends and explains why income inequality varies between countries.
The first book-length treatment to conclusively demonstrate the link between income inequality and the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession Prevailing economic theory attributes the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed to ...
This paper contributes to the income inequality literature that is based on the traditional Kuznets model.