The New Geography of Global Income Inequality

by Glenn Firebaugh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674019873
• ISBN13: 9780674019874
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"