دانلود کتاب Inequality and instability: a study of the world economy just before the Great Crisis

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Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
CHAPTER 1. The Physics and Ethics of Inequality......Page 18
THE SIMPLE PHYSICS OF INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT......Page 24
THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF INEQUALITY MEASURES......Page 28
PLAN OF THE BOOK......Page 29
THE DATA PROBLEM IN INEQUALITY STUDIES......Page 35
OBTAINING DENSE AND CONSISTENT INEQUALITY MEASURES......Page 44
GROUPING UP AND GROUPING DOWN......Page 51
CONCLUSION......Page 58
WHAT KUZNETS MEANT......Page 62
NEW DATA FOR A NEW LOOK AT KUZNETS’S HYPOTHESIS......Page 65
PAY INEQUALITY AND NATIONAL INCOME: WHAT’S THE SHAPE OF THE CURVE?......Page 77
GLOBAL RISING INEQUALITY: THE SOROS SUPERBUBBLE AS A PATT ERN IN THE DATA......Page 84
CONCLUSION......Page 88
APPENDIX : ON A PRESUMED LINK FROM INEQUALITY TO GROWTH......Page 89
CHAPTER 4. Estimating the Inequality of Household Incomes......Page 96
ESTIMATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INEQUALITIES OF PAY AND INCOME......Page 97
FINDING THE PROBLEM CASES: A STUDY OF RESIDUALS......Page 102
BUILDING A DEEP AND BALANCED INCOME INEQUALITY DATASET......Page 106
CONCLUSION......Page 111
CHAPTER 5. Economic Inequality and Political Regimes......Page 115
DEMOCRACY AND INEQUALITY IN POLITICAL SCIENCE......Page 116
A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO POLITICAL REGIME TYPES......Page 120
ANALYSIS AND RESULTS......Page 122
APPENDIX I : POLITICAL REGIME DATA DESCRIPTION......Page 128
APPENDIX II : RESULTS USING OTHER POLITICAL CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES......Page 133
CHAPTER 6. The Geography of Inequality in America, 1969 to 2007......Page 139
BETWEEN-INDUSTRY EARNINGS INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES......Page 143
THE CHANGING GEOGRA PHY OF AMERICAN INCOME INEQUALITY......Page 155
INTERPRETING INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES......Page 161
CONCLUSION......Page 163
CHAPTER 7. State-Level Income Inequality and American Elections......Page 167
SOME INITIAL MODELS USING OFF-THE-SHELF DATA FOR THE 2000 ELECTION......Page 170
NEW ESTIMATES OF STATE-LEVEL INEQUALITY AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE INEQUALITY-ELECTIONS RELATIONSHIP OVER TIME......Page 173
INEQUALITY AND THE INCOME PARADOX IN VOTING......Page 177
CONCLUSION......Page 179
CHAPTER 8. Inequality and Unemployment in Europe: A Question of Levels......Page 180
AN INEQUALITY-BASED THEORY OF UNEMPLOYMENT......Page 182
REGION-BASED EVIDENCE ON INEQUALITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT......Page 185
INEQUALITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE AND AMERICA......Page 194
IMPLICATIONS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT POLICY IN EUROPE......Page 196
APPENDIX : DETAILED RESULTS AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSES......Page 198
CHAPTER 9. European Wages and the Flexibility Thesis......Page 213
THE PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE: A REPRISE......Page 216
ASSESSING WAGE FLEXIBILITY ACROSS EUROPE......Page 218
CLUSTERING AND DISCRIMINATING TO SIMPLIFY THE PICTURE......Page 221
CONCLUSION......Page 228
APPENDIX I: CLUSTER DETAILS......Page 229
APPENDIX II: EIGENVALUES AND CANONICAL CORRELATIONS......Page 239
APPENDIX III: CORRELATIONS BETWEEN CANONICAL SCORES AND PSEUDOSCORES......Page 240
CHAPTER 10. Globalization and Inequality in China......Page 250
THE EVOLUTION OF INEQUALITY IN CHINA THROUGH 2007......Page 251
FINANCE AND THE EXPORT BOOM, 2002 TO 2006......Page 255
TRADE AND CAPITAL INFLOW......Page 259
PROFIT AND CAPITAL FLOWS INTO SPECULATIVE SECTORS......Page 262
CONCLUSION......Page 264
CHAPTER 11. Finance and Power in Argentina and Brazil......Page 267
THE MODERN POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL......Page 268
MEASURING INEQUALITY......Page 269
PAY INEQUALITY IN ARGENTINA, 1994–2007......Page 271
PAY INEQUALITY IN BRAZIL, 1996–2007......Page 276
CONCLUSION......Page 280
CHAPTER 12. Inequality in Cuba after the Soviet Collapse......Page 284
DATA ON PAY IN CUBA......Page 286
EVOLUTION OF THE CUBAN ECONOMY, 1991–2005......Page 287
PAY INEQUALITY BY SECTOR......Page 294
PAY INEQUALITY BY REGION......Page 300
CONCLUSION......Page 301
CHAPTER 13. Economic Inequality and the World Crisis......Page 304
References......Page 310
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