Unveiling Inequality: A World-Historical Perspective

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Synopsis
Despite the vast expansion of global markets during the last half of the twentieth century, social science still most often examines and measures inequality and social mobility within individual nations rather than across national boundaries. Every country has both rich and poor populations making demands--via institutions, political processes, or even conflict--on how their resources will be distributed. But shifts in inequality in one country can precipitate accompanying shifts in another. Unveiling Inequality authors Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran make the case that within-country analyses alone have not adequately illuminated our understanding of global stratification. The authors present a comprehensive new framework that moves beyond national boundaries to analyze economic inequality and social mobility on a global scale and from a historical perspective. Assembling data on patterns of inequality in more than ninety-six countries, Unveiling Inequality reframes the relationship between globalization and inequality within and between nations. Korzeniewicz and Moran first examine two different historical patterns--"High Inequality Equilibrium" and "Low Inequality Equilibrium"--and question whether increasing equality, democracy, and economic growth are inextricably linked as nations modernize. Inequality is best understood as a complex set of relational interactions that unfold globally over time. So the same institutional mechanisms that have historically reduced inequality within some nations have also often accentuated the selective exclusion of populations from poorer countries and enhanced high inequality equilibrium between nations.
Copyright:
2009

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
192 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781610446587
Related ISBNs:
9780871544834, 9780871545763
Publisher:
Russell Sage Foundation
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Copyrighted By:
Russell Sage Foundation
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Sociology
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