1st Edition

International Income Inequality

Edited By Alan Freeman, Nobuharu Yokokawa Copyright 2023
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

What causes inequality? This book features an international discussion on the economic causes of inequality between nations and addresses the causes and effects of world inequality and its possible remedies.   Inequality has acquired the iconic status once accorded to Full Employment, Growth, and Inflation. It is not a new issue being a major preoccupation of welfare state literature and... Read more

Introduction: international income inequality

Alan Freeman

1. World inequality, Latin America catching up, and the asymmetries in power

Víctor Manuel Isidro Luna

2. Financialization and income inequality: an empirical analysis

Kang-Kook Lee and Md Abu Bakkar Siddique

3. Income inequality: past, present and future in a political economy perspective

Pascal Mickael Petit

4. Transformation of the class structure in contemporary Japan

Kenji Hashimoto

5. On the labor theory of value as the basis for the analysis of economic inequality in the capitalist economy

Naoki Yoshihara

Biography

Alan Freeman is Research Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Nobuharu Yokokawa is Professor of Economics at Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Japanese Political Economy and has published widely on the topics of political economy, evolutionary economics, economic history, and development economics.