Inequality in Economics and Sociology: New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367878481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 246 str.

Gilberto Antonelli; Boike Rehbein

Opis

Organised thematically, this volume brings international scholars together to offer students and researchers a cutting edge overview of the core topics of inequality research. Chapters cover the theoretical traditions in economics and sociology; the global and national structures of inequality in the contemporary world; the main dimensions of in

Spis treści

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Introduction

Gilberto Antonelli and Boike Rehbein

PART I Theoretical background

1. Theoretical approaches to inequality in economics and sociology

Giovanni Guidetti and Boike Rehbein

PART II Inequality and globalization

2. Inequality in income and wealth distribution, globalization and models of capitalism

Gilberto Antonelli

3. Globalization, capitalism and inequality

Boike Rehbein and Jessé Souza

4. Lower classes

Jessé Souza

5. Middle classes

Florian Stoll

6. Elites

Michael Hartmann

PART III Dimensions of inequality

7. Gender and inequality

Emanuelle Silva

8. Inequality and migration

Anja Weiß

9. Inequality, ethnicity and caste

Surinder S. Jodhka

10. Inequality and race

Gerhard Maré

11. Rural–urban inequality and poverty

Anirudh Krishna

12. Inequality, education and skills

Michael Kinville and Giulio Pedrini

13. Innovation and inequality

Riccardo Leoncini

PART IV Methodology

14. Quantitative methods for inequality measurement

Pinuccia Calia

15. Qualitative approaches to inequality

Christian Schneickert

Index

O autorze

Gilberto Antonelli is Full Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna, Italy, and Chairman of the School of Development, Innovation and Change (SDIC).

Boike Rehbein is Professor of the Sociology of Asia and Africa at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.