The political economy of inequality /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2000. |
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| Description: | xli, 403 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Frontier issues in economic thought ; . 5 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4254888 |
Table of Contents:
- Authors of Original Articles
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Volume Introduction
- Part I. Unequal Earnings: Theory versus Reality
- Overview Essay
- Bringing Income Distribution In from the Cold
- Wage Polarization in the U.S. and the "Flexibility" Debate
- Wielding the Stick
- Rising Wage Inequality: The U.S. versus Other Advanced Countries
- Inequality, Unemployment, Inflation, and Growth
- Trends in the Level and Distribution of U.S. Living Standards: 1973-1993
- Part II. The Distribution of Wealth and Power
- Overview Essay
- International Comparisons of Wealth Inequality
- Long-Term Trends in American Wealth Inequality
- A Story of Two Nations: Race and Wealth
- The Corporate Community and the Upper Class
- Structures of Corporate Control
- Part III. New Paths to the Top: CEO and Celebrity Compensation
- Overview Essay
- How Winner-Take-All Markets Arise and The Growth of Winner-Take-All Markets
- The Cost of Talent: Summing Up
- Management Compensation Plans--Panacea or Placebo?
- Top Executive Pay: Tournament or Teamwork?
- Why Do Pro Athletes Make So Much Money?
- Marginal Revenue and Labor Strife in Major League Baseball
- Part IV. Corporate Power: Why Does It Matter?
- Overview Essay
- Economy: The Political Foundations of Production and Exchange
- Business Unity, Business Power
- Bigness and Social Efficiency: A Case Study of the U.S. Auto Industry
- The Dark Side of Flexible Production
- Power, Accumulation, and Crisis: The Rise and Demise of the Postwar Social Structure of Accumulation
- The Mobilization of Corporate Conservatism
- Markets and Politics
- The Solution: A Better Scorecard and What the Scorecard Should Contain
- Part V. Poverty, Inequality, and Power
- Overview Essay
- Income, Deprivation, and Poverty and Implications for Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty
- The Age of Extremes: Concentrated Affluence and Poverty in the Twenty-First Century
- Social Exclusion: Toward an Analytical and Operational Framework
- Poor Relief and the Dramaturgy of Work
- Not Markets Alone: Enriching the Discussion of Income Distribution
- Part VI. Intrahousehold Dynamics and Changing Household Composition
- Overview Essay
- Trade, Merger, and Employment: Economic Theory on Marriage
- Gender Coalitions: Extrafamily Influences in Intrafamily Inequality
- Renegotiating the Marital Contract: Intrahousehold Patterns of Money Allocation and Women's Subordination Among Domestic Outworkers in Mexico City
- Incomes, Expenditures, and Health Outcomes: Evidence on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation
- The Marginalization of Black Men: Impact on Family Structure
- Single Mothers in Sweden: Why Is Poverty Less Severe?
- Part VII. Technology, Skills, and Education
- Overview Essay
- Institutional Failure and the American Worker: The Collapse of Low-Skill Wages
- Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from an International Panel of Industries
- The "Skill-oriented" Strategies of German Trade Unions: Their Impact on Efficiency and Equality Objectives
- Access to Education
- The Economics of Justice in Education
- Making the Grade: Educational Stratification in the United States, 1925-1989
- Part VIII. Categorical Inequality
- Overview Essay
- Race and Gender Wage Gaps in the Market for Recent College Graduates
- Intergroup Disparity: Economic Theory and Social Science Evidence
- What's Fairness Got To Do With It? Environmental Justice and the Siting of Locally Undesirable Land Uses
- Tracking Racial Bias
- The Impact of Economic Change on Minorities and Migrants in Western Europe
- The Political Economy of Gender and Economic Progress and Gender Equality
- The Gender Pay Gap
- Social Construction of Skill: Gender, Power, and Comparable Worth
- Racial Antagonisms and Race-Based Social Policy
- The Future of Affirmative Action: Reclaiming the Innovative Ideal
- Part IX. World Income Inequality and the Poverty of Nations
- Overview Essay
- Divergence, Big Time
- Globalization and Inequality, Past and Present
- Income Distribution and Poverty: An Interregional Comparison
- Income Inequality and Development: The 1970s and 1980s Compared
- The Relationship Between Wage Inequality and International Trade
- Openness and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Latin American Challenge to East Asian Conventional Wisdom
- The Distributional Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries
- Income Distribution in Developing Economies: Conceptual, Data, and Policy Issues in Broad-Based Growth
- Part X. Responses to Inequality: The Welfare State
- Overview Essay
- Is There an Explanation? Alternative Models of the Labor Market and the Minimum Wage
- Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, the Swedish Way
- How Social Democracy Worked: Labor-Market Institutions
- The American Paradox: High Income and High Child Poverty
- Who Paid for the Canadian Welfare State during 1955-1988?
- On Targeting and Family Benefits
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Name Index