The return of inequality : social change and the weight of the past

The return of inequality : social change and the weight of the past / Mike Savage.

"A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest of us for years, and the super-rich hav...

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Main Author: Savage, Michael, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Income distribution > History > 21st century.
Equality > 21st century.
Regression (Civilization) > 21st century.
Social change > 21st century.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What is the challenge of inequality?
  • Part 1. Locating inequality in time and space
  • Turning the telescope: the economic analysis of income distribution
  • Society as a sports field: the challenge of Bourdieu
  • Renewing Marx: capital accumulation and the weight of history
  • Part 2. Inequality, empire, and the decline of nations
  • The ranking of nations
  • The return of empire: inequality on a global scale
  • Insiders and outsiders: class, gender and race in historical perspective
  • Visceral inequality in the 21st century
  • Cities and accumulation
  • The force of information and technology
  • Part 3. The politics of inequality in the twenty-first century
  • Reinstating the time of politics
  • What is to be done?

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