A survey of the following issues: deals with the rapid growth rates which have led some to believe that the axis of world commerce has tilted away from the Atlantic to the Pacific - the extraordinary upheaval in international financial markets which has led to the world debt problem and wildly...

This paper examines the relationship between changes in the financial sector and the increasing inequality in Germany. For this, first an overview about the development of the main inequality indicators for Germany is given, which show inequality has been rising since the 1980s. Thereafter, the...