The Political Economy of Inequality

Author: Frank Stilwell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509528687
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our age. In this book, leading political economist Frank Stilwell provides a comprehensive overview of the nature, causes, and consequences of this growing divide. He shows how we can understand inequalities of wealth and incomes, globally and nationally, examines the scale of the problem and explains how it affects our wellbeing. He also shows that, although governments are often committed to ‘growth at all costs’ and ‘trickle down’ economics, there are alternative public policies that could be used to narrow the gap between rich and poor. Stilwell’s engaging and clear guide to the issues will be indispensable reading for all students, general readers and scholars interested in inequality in political economy, economics, public policy and beyond.

The Political Economy of Inequality

Author: Sisay Asefa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780880996723
Category : Economic policy
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
"This book encapsulates the six papers delivered during the 54th Werner Sichel Lecture Series, held on the campus of Western Michigan University during the academic year 2017-2018. The book's title is taken from the theme for that year's lecture series, "The Political Economy of Inequality: U.S. and Global Dimensions.""--

Regimes of Inequality

Author: Julia Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107001684
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
Why can't politicians seem to make policies that will reduce social inequality, even when they acknowledge that inequality is harmful?

The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development

Author: William D. Ferguson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503611973
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
This book examines how a society that is trapped in stagnation might initiate and sustain economic and political development. In this context, progress requires the reform of existing arrangements, along with the complementary evolution of informal institutions. It involves enhancing state capacity, balancing broad avenues for political input, and limiting concentrated private and public power. This juggling act can only be accomplished by resolving collective-action problems (CAPs), which arise when individuals pursue interests that generate undesirable outcomes for society at large. Merging and extending key perspectives on CAPs, inequality, and development, this book constructs a flexible framework to investigate these complex issues. By probing four basic hypotheses related to knowledge production, distribution, power, and innovation, William D. Ferguson offers an analytical foundation for comparing and evaluating approaches to development policy. Navigating the theoretical terrain that lies between simplistic hierarchies of causality and idiosyncratic case studies, this book promises an analytical lens for examining the interactions between inequality and development. Scholars and researchers across economic development and political economy will find it to be a highly useful guide.

The Political Economy of Education

Author: Mark Gradstein
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262262880
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
A theoretical framework for analyzing the complex relationship of education, growth, and income distribution. The dominant role played by the state in the financing, regulation, and provision of primary and secondary education reflects the widely-held belief that education is necessary for personal and societal well-being. The economic organization of education depends on political as well as market mechanisms to resolve issues that arise because of contrasting views on such matters as income inequality, social mobility, and diversity. This book provides the theoretical framework necessary for understanding the political economy of education—the complex relationship of education, economic growth, and income distribution—and for formulating effective policies to improve the financing and provision of education. The relatively simple models developed illustrate the use of analytical tools for understanding central policy issues. After offering a historical overview of the development of public education and a review of current econometric evidence on education, growth, and income distribution, the authors lay the theoretical groundwork for the main body of analysis. First they develop a basic static model of how political decisions determine education spending; then they extend this model dynamically. Applying this framework to a comparison of education financing under different regimes, the authors explore fiscal decentralization; individual choice between public and private schooling, including the use of education vouchers to combine public financing of education with private provision; and the social dimension of education—its role in state-building, the traditional "melting pot" that promotes cohesion in a culturally diverse society.

The Economics of Inequality

Author: Thomas Piketty
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674504801
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty’s The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears in English for the first time.

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality

Author: Wiemer Salverda
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199231370
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 759

Book Description
Comprehensive analysis of economic inequality in developed countries. The contributors give their view on the state-of-the-art scientific research in their fields and add their own visions of future research.

The American Political Economy

Author: Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487

Book Description
Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.

Women, Work, and Politics

Author: Torben Iversen
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300153104
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
This book presents an original and groundbreaking approach to gender inequality. Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, the authors demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labor outside the home, which is a function of structural, political, and institutional conditions.--[book jacket].

The Political Geography of Inequality

Author: Pablo Beramendi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107378281
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
This book addresses two questions - why some political systems have more centralized systems of interpersonal redistribution than others, and why some political unions make larger efforts to equalize resources among their constituent units than others. This book presents a new theory of the origin of fiscal structures in systems with several levels of government. The argument points to two major factors to account for the variation in redistribution: the interplay between economic geography and political representation on the one hand, and the scope of interregional economic externalities on the other. To test the empirical implications derived from the argument, the book relies on in-depth studies of the choice of fiscal structures in unions as diverse as the European Union, Canada and the United States in the aftermath of the Great Depression; Germany before and after Reunification; and Spain after the transition to democracy.