Inequality and the global economic crisis /

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Author / Creator:	Dowd, Douglas F. (Douglas Fitzgerald), 1919-2017
Imprint:	London ; New York : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Description:	xiv, 294 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Financial crises. Income distribution. Equality -- Economic aspects. Globalization -- Economic aspects. Capitalism. Poverty. Big business. Big business. Capitalism. Equality -- Economic aspects. Financial crises. Globalization -- Economic aspects. Income distribution. Poverty.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7980615

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ISBN:	9780745329444 0745329446 9780745329437 (pbk.) 0745329438 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.
Summary:	Inequality has always been with us. With the growth of capitalism across the globe, inequalities of income, wealth and power became increasingly extreme. Written by economist Douglas Dowd, this book shows that the present banking crisis is the result of the growth of inequality across the globe. The expansion of the financial sector has brought incredible riches to a select few, at the expense of the majority. Inequality was ignored, or described as a necessary aspect of a booming global economy. With the collapse of the world markets, the fallacy of this position is clear. Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis shows how it is only by addressing inequality that we can secure the health of our economies in the future.--Publisher.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
1. Inequality: An Introduction
2. Class Inequality and the Inequality of Political and Social Power
3. Inequality Based on Gender, "Race," Nationalism and Religion
4. Big Business and Inequality
5. Today's Inequality as Worsened by Consumerism and the Media
6. Globalization: Unintended Consequences, Inc.
7. Financialization: Las Vegas, Inc.
8. Militarism and Inequality
9. Inequality's Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers regarding: Poverty and Health Care
10. Inequality's Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers regarding Education, Housing and the Homeless, Nutrition and Hunger, Opportunity, Dignity, Morale, and Family life
11. Inequality's Interacting Consequences for the Economy, Democracy, and Social Decency
12. Comparisons of Inequality and its treatment between the U.S.A. and Western Europe
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

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