Klassen und Schichten wurden in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Debatte angezweifelt. Hier wird die aktuelle Debatte über soziale Ungleichheit referiert, der Gegensatz zwischen Arm und Reich und die prekären Verhältnisse für viele untersucht und aktuelle Entwicklungen bewertet. (2)

"In many European countries, the process of financialisation has been exacerbated by the project of closer EU integration and accelerated as a result of austerity policies introduced after the Euro crisis of 2010-12. However, the impact has been felt differently in core and peripheral countries....

Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- Introduction: income inequality, labour market and uneven development during financial capitalism -- Definitions, approaches and origins of income inequality -- Theories, methods and varieties of inequality -- The determinants of income inequality in rich countries...

1. Introduction: Rising income inequality and finance capitalism -- 2. How to study inequality of the finance capitalism era -- 3. USA: the birth of global neoliberal financialisation order -- 4. South Korea: transforming national model -- 5. Argentina: entrenching income inequality -- 6....