There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita incomes by more in poor countries than in rich. This supposition is reasonable but false. Rich countries have experienced more deaths per head than have poor countries; their...

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....

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and...