This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades. During this period, income distribution and economic welfare were affected by the 1979 Revolution, the eight-year war with Iraq, post-war privatization and economic...

Mit seinen voluminösen Bestsellern "Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert" und "Kapital und Ideologie" hat Thomas Piketty eine internationale Debatte über die Ursachen sozialer Ungleichheit in Gang gebracht. Sein neues Buch ist eine bewusst komprimierte Weltgeschichte der sozialen Konflikte und...

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...

The thirty-years war -- The puzzling politics of winner-take-all -- The winner-take-all economy -- How the winner-take-all economy was made -- A brief history of Democratic capitalism -- The rise of winner-take-all politics -- The unseen revolution of the 1970s -- The politics of organized...