Machine generated contents note: List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paving the High Road; Closing the Low Road -- Part I-European Social Democracy Points Toward the High Road -- 1 Social Citizenship: Lessons from Sweden -- 2 Associative Democracy: Lessons from Europe's German...

Income inequality in China is severe; measured by the Gini-coefficient it amounted to 0.46 in 2011; wealth distribution is even worse with 0.61. These disparities led to a major shift in emphasis of politics in general and of the Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development by the...

This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.