Inequality - What Everyone Needs to Know (R)

Informationen zum Autor James K. Galbraith teaches at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds degrees from Harvard and Yale, and was a Marshall Scholar at King's College, Cambridge. He served as Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee, US Congress, in the early 1980s. In 2010 he was elected to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2012, he was President of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. He is the 2014 co-winner of the Leontief Prize for advancing the frontiers of economic thought. Klappentext Inequality what is it, exactly? How is it measured? Why should we care? Why did inequality rise in the United States? Is rising inequality an inevitable feature of capitalism? What should we do about it? Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know answers these questions and more in a comprehensive yet easily-understood introduction to the topic of economic inequality. Zusammenfassung Inequality what is it, exactly? How is it measured? Why should we care? Why did inequality rise in the United States? Is rising inequality an inevitable feature of capitalism? What should we do about it? Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know answers these questions and more in a comprehensive yet easily-understood introduction to the topic of economic inequality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Inequality: Should We Care? 2. Inequality in the History of Economic Thought 3. Categorical Inequality 4. Major Concepts of Distribution 5. Measures of Inequality and Sources of Data 6. Causes and Consequences of Changing Inequalities 7. Norms and Policies

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• Autori: James K. Galbraith, James K. ( Lloyd M. Bentsen Galbraith, James K. (Lloyd M. Bentsen Galbraith, James Kenneth Galbraith
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780190250478
• ISBN: 978-0-19-025047-8
• Pagine: 224
• Serie: What Everyone Needs to Know; What Everyone Needs To Know®; What Everyone Needs to Know (R); What Everyone Needs to Know (P
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