Inequality : what can be done? / Anthony B. Atkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, A. B. (Anthony Barnes), 1944-2017.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution.

Poverty.

Equality.

Welfare economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 384 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univ. P., 2015.

Summary:

Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of the problem - talk about the 99% and the 1% is entrenched in public debate - but there has been little discussion of what we can do but despair. According to the distinguished economist Anthony Atkinson, however, we can do much more than skeptics imagine.

Contents:

Introduction

Part One: Diagnosis

1. Setting the Scene

2. Learning from History

3. The Economics of Inequality

A Summing-Up So Far

Part Two: Proposals for Action

4. Technological Change and Countervailing Power

5. Employment and Pay in the Future

6. Capital Shared

7. Progressive Taxation

8. Social Security for All

Proposals to Reduce the Extent of Inequality

Part Three: Can It Be Done?

9. Shrinking the Cake?

10. Globalisation Prevents Action?

11. Can We Afford It?

The Way Forward

Glossary

Notes.

Notes:

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674979789

0674979788

9780674287037

0674287037

9780674287013

0674287010

OCLC:

908192410