International Income Inequality

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.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Japanese Political Economy.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Introduction: international income inequality 1. World inequality, Latin America catching up, and the asymmetries in power 2. Financialization and income inequality: an empirical analysis 3. Income inequality: past, present and future in a political economy perspective 4. Transformation of the class structure in contemporary Japan 5. On the labor theory of value as the basis for the analysis of economic inequality in the capitalist economy **