International Income Inequality

<p>What causes inequality? This book features an international discussion on the economic causes of inequality between nations and addresses the causes and effects of world inequality and its possible remedies. </p><p>Inequality has acquired the iconic status once accorded to Full Employment Growth and Inflation. It is not a new issue being a major preoccupation of welfare state literature and the development debates of the 1950s and intersects with debates among economic historians on <i>The Great Divergence</i>. The revivals of these two intersecting controversies go beyond a minor dispute on the margins of economics to the heart of the question ‘how far can we trust the market?’</p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of <i>The Japanese Political Economy. </i></p>