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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. A YBP Library Services Bestselling Professional Titles, 2nd quarter 2003. The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing.
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The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations). Firebaugh claims that this historic transition represents a new geography of global income inequality in the twenty-first century.
This book documents the new geography, describes its causes, and explains why other analysts have missed one of the defining features of our era—a transition in inequality that is reducing the importance of where a person is born in determining his or her future well-being.
Contents
Preface PART I. THE NEW GEOGRAPHY HYPOTHESIS 1. Massive Global Income Inequality: When Did It Arise and Why Does It Matter? The Growing World Income Pie Other Welfare Changes The Rise in Income Disparities over the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Why Nations? Why Not Focus on Poverty Rather than on Inequality? 2. The Reversal of Historical Inequality Trends Myths of the Trade Protest Model Causes of the Reversal: An Overview The Inequality Transition PART II. MEASUREMENT 3. How Is National Income Measured, and Can We Trust the Data? How Is National Income Measured? Are Income Estimates Plausible? Are the Historical Income Data Reliable Enough? Are the Contemporary Income Data Reliable Enough? Measuring Income over Time Appendix A3: Adjusting for Household Economies in Poor
