Basu, Kaushik (ed.); Stiglitz, Joseph E. (ed.) - 2016
It was a part of the wisdom of mainstream economics that in the early stages of development inequality would rise but …. But, as time passed and growth persisted, inequality continued to grow, casting doubt on the received wisdom. The aim of … this two-volume book is to analyze the current state of global and regional inequality, dissect the phenomenal increase in …