Knowledge and Global Inequality Since 1800 - Interrogating the Present As History

"The Element highlights the monopolization and exclusion from high-value knowledge in analysing divergent and, recently, partially convergent income trends across 200-odd years of the global capitalist economy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--

List of contents

1. Global Inequality; 2. Knowledge and Its Enclosure; 3. Adverse Specialization and Divergence, 1820-1950; 4. Limited Convergence, 1950 to the Present; 5. The Middle-Income Trap; 6. Developing the Knowledge Economy; 7. Conclusions.

Summary

The Element highlights the monopolization and exclusion from high-value knowledge in analysing divergent and, recently, partially convergent income trends across 200-odd years of the global capitalist economy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Foreword

Knowledge monopoly leads to global inequality between 1800 up to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Dev Nathan, Dev (Institute for Human Development) Nathan, Dev (Southern Centre for Inequality Studie Nathan, Dev (University of the Witwatersrand Nathan, Nathan Dev
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009455176
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0945517-6
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Development Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Economics, Knowledge Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Economic history, International Economics, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Monopolies, Knowledge / Information / Data economics