1st Edition
Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID A Complex Realist Approach
1. Inequality: An Issue whose Time has Come
2. Conceptualizing Inequality
3. Describing Inequality
4. Income, Wealth and Inequality
5. Inequality and Capitalism(s) in the 21st Century
6. The Role of the State in Relation to Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis: How this Works out for Incomes and Wealth
7. The Role of the State in Relation to Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis: The "Social Wage" and Spatial Planning
8. The Formal Politics of Inequality: What Kind of Governance Systems Do We Need to Confront Inequality in a Context of Climate Change and after COVID
9. The New Politics of Equality
10. The Futures that are Possible for us
Biography
David Byrne is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Applied Social Science at the University of Durham. He has written widely on methodology and inequality deploying the complexity frame of reference to inform all his work over the past twenty-five years. His recent books include Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences – an Introduction (1996), Interpreting Quantitative Data (2002), Social Exclusion (2005), Applying Social Science (2011), Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art (with Gill Callaghan 2014), Paying for the Welfare State in the 21st Century (with Sally Ruane 2017), and Class after Industry (2019).
