Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty

Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty

The Structural Inequities of Capitalism, from Lehman Brothers to Covid-19

Schettino, Francesco; Clementi, Fabio

Brill

09/2022

204

Dura

Inglês

9789004514423

15 a 20 dias

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Foreword??


Acknowledgments??


List of Figures and Tables??


1???The Nature of the Crisis??

?1?Underconsumption, Prices and Profits


?2?Excess Commodities, Excess Needs


?3?Pressure to Purchase, Debt and Speculation


?4?Financial Speculation and the Ratings Agencies


?5?Currency Conflict




2???Dollar vs. Euro ?From the 2010 Attack to the final surrender of 2015???

?1?An Evening in Manhattan


?2?The Spectre of Speculation


?3?The Final Surrender: The Greek Clinamen


?4??ttip?, tpp and Global Conflict




3???A Flood of Liquidity From? ??qe???? ?towards a New Despotic Management of Capitalism??????

?1?'Hostile Brothers' and Fictitious Capital


?2?Quantitative Easing (qe)


?3?The Effects of Quantitative Easing


?4?Capitalism's Addiction Problem


?5?When It Rains, It Pours


?6?Capital's New Despotism




4???Income Distribution Concepts, Analytical Tools and Empirical Evidence????

?1?Income Distribution

?1.1?Basic Concepts??


?1.2?Representing Income Distribution??




?2?Global Income Distribution

?2.1?Income Distribution in Italy ????




?3?Economic Inequality

?3.1?Measuring Inequality??


?3.2?Relative vs. Absolute Inequality??


?3.3?Inequality in the World??




?4?Income Inequality in Italy

?4.1?The Causes of Inequality??




?5?Poverty: Definition and Measurement


?6?Defining Poverty

?6.1?Standard of living??


?6.2?Uni- and Multidimensional Poverty??


?6.3?Relative and Absolute Poverty??




?7?Poverty Lines

?7.1?Measuring Poverty??


?7.2?Poverty in the World??


?7.3?Poverty in Italy ????




?8?Income Polarisation

?8.1?Definition??


?8.2?Inequality and Income Polarisation??


?8.3?Measuring Income Polarisation??


?8.4?Income Polarisation in Practice??




5???The Effects of the Crisis on Poverty and Inequality??

?1?More People in Poverty?


?2?A Less Equal World?




6???Pandemic, Crisis, Inequality and Conflict??

?1?The Crisis Scenario Pre Covid 19


?2?Epidemic, Misery, Inequality and Conflict




7???Afterword Socialism or Barbarism: Where Do We Go from? Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty???

??Haider A.?? ??Khan??????



References??


Index??
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Finance Capital; Income Distribution; Overproduction; Pandemic; Polarisation; Polarization; Rating Agencies; Socialism