Die Ungleichheit in der Welt nimmt zu: Immer weniger Menschen häufen immer gröe︢ren Reichtum an, während die Zahl der Armen wächst und die Mittelschicht vom Abstieg bedroht ist. Doch diese Entwicklung, so zeigt Nobelpreisträger Joseph Stiglitz in seinem neuen Bestseller, ist keine...

Introduction [or giving Latin America's majority a fair chance] -- A dozen equity tools -- Rule-based fiscal discipline -- Smoothing booms and busts -- Social safety nets that trigger automatically -- More taxes on the rich and better spending on the rest -- Giving small businesses a chance --...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the...

Introduction (Paul Dobrescu) -- Part I. Envisaging Development in the Contemporary Society: Theory and Public Debates -- Why Do Some Countries Develop and Others Not? (Ian Goldin) -- Measuring the Hard-to-Measure in Development: Dimensions, Measurement Challenges, and Responses (Anne L....