Inequality and the global economic crisis / Douglas Dowd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dowd, Douglas F. (Douglas Fitzgerald), 1919-2017.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crises.

Income distribution.

Equality--Economic aspects.

Equality.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Capitalism.

Poverty.

Big business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Inequality has always been with us. With the growth of capitalism across the globe, inequalities of income, wealth and power became increasingly extreme. Written by economist Douglas Dowd, this book shows that the present banking crisis is the result of the growth of inequality across the globe. The expansion of the financial sector has brought incredible riches to a select few, at the expense of the majority. Inequality was ignored, or described as a necessary aspect of a booming global economy. With the collapse of the world markets, the fallacy of this position is clear. Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis shows how it is only by addressing inequality that we can secure the health of our economies in the future.--Publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Prologue

1. Inequality: An Introduction

2. Class Inequality and the Inequality of Political and Social Power

3. Inequality Based on Gender, "Race," Nationalism and Religion

4. Big Business and Inequality

5. Today's Inequality as Worsened by Consumerism and the Media

6. Globalization: Unintended Consequences, Inc.

7. Financialization: Las Vegas, Inc.

8. Militarism and Inequality

9: Inequality's Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers (I)

Poverty

Health Care

10. Inequality's Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers (II)

Education

Housing and the Homeless

Nutrition and Hunger

Opportunity

Dignity, Morale, Self-Respect, and Family Life

11. Inequality's Interacting Consequences for the Economy, Democracy and Social Decency

12. Comparisons of Inequality and its Treatment Between the US and Western Europe

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.

ISBN:

9781783716517

1783716517

9781849644372

1849644373

OCLC:

656846648