The contributions in this book highlight, contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are the various cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recent decades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written by authors from a variety...

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas...

Since colonisation New Zealand has been mythologised as a land of milk and honey a promised land of natural abundance and endless opportunity. In the twenty first century the country has become literally a land of milk and honey as agricultural exports from such commodities dominate the national...