Economic Integration, Technological Change, and Economic Inequality
Author : Sebastian Böhm
Publisher :
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN :
Rising Income Inequality
Author : Chris Papageorgiou
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting tendencies: whereas trade globalization is associated with a reduction in inequality, financial globalization-and foreign direct investment in particular-is associated with an increase. A key finding is that both globalization and technological changes increase the returns on human capital, underscoring the importance of education and training in both developed and developing countries in addressing rising inequality.
Globalization and Poverty
Author : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226318001
Book Description
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Inequality and Economic Integration
Author : Francesco Farina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134293542
Book Description
Internationally, globalization and increased economic integration has impacted quality of life and individual well-being. Attempts to evaluate the impact on income dispersion from this process have been extremely controversial. This key volume is the first real attempt to build up indices and a theoretical framework in order to deal with inequality of opportunity, and to enable social and political institutions to monitor increasing disparities in well-being and social exclusion. It thoroughly examines the possible relationships between the recent acceleration in economic integration and inequality among persons and countries and will enable social and political institutions to monitor increasing disparities in well-being and social exclusion. The contributions to this volume cover various subfields of economics, and examine both the negative and positive spillover effects of economic integration on individuals, social groups and nations. Since the impact of globalization on the most deprived people is multidimensional in nature, the theoretical framework is extended to a multivariate context where several individual characteristics are simultaneously considered. This original volume covers many important topics and features an impressive array of respected contributors. As such, it is sure to be an invaluable resource for postgraduates and professionals in the fields of political economy and economics.
Technology and Inequality
Author : Jonathan P. Allen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319569589
Book Description
This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the role of technology in inequality, the book will have a unifying theme of tracing wealth creation and wealth capture in the technology sector, and relating specific practices—what technology companies actually do—to larger shifts in wealth and power. A clear conceptual framework will be used to analyze key industry case studies: search engines, social media, and the ‘sharing’ economy.
Inequality, Economic Growth, and Technological Change
Author : Volker Grossmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642575943
Book Description
The book examines the relationship between inequality, growth and technological progress. It provides a broad overview of the existing literature and introduces specific, innovative aspects about the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth when growth is driven by human or physical capital investments, as well as the impact of technological progress and accumulation on the distribution of earnings. There is a special focus on the role of social comparison, redistributive taxation and new information technologies for the relationship between inequality and growth. The analytical part of the book mainly consists of endogenous growth models.
The Power of the Machine
Author : Alf Hornborg
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2001-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759116911
Book Description
Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges and distribution of resources and risks between distant populations and ecosystems, and thus an increasingly polarized world order. The author challenges us to reconceptualize the machine—'industrial technomass'—as a species of power and a problem of culture. He shows how economic anthropology has the tools to deconstruct the concepts of production, money capital, and market exchange, and to analyze capital accumulation as a problem at the very interface of the natural and social sciences. His analysis provides an alternative understanding of economic growth and technological development. Hornborg's work is essential for researchers in anthropology, human ecology, economics, political economy, world-systems theory, environmental justice, and science and technology studies. Find out more about the author at the Lund University, Sweden web site.
The Theory of Technological Change and Economic Growth
Author : Dr Stanislaw Gomulka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134940696
Book Description
In this wide ranging exposition of the various economic theories of technological change, Stanislaw Gomulka relates them to rates of growth experienced by different economies in both the short and the long term. Analysis of countries as diverse as Japan, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom demonstrates that there is an interdependence between technological change and the institutional and cultural characteristics of different countries, which can have a profound effect on their rates of growth. All of the major, relevant models are discussed, including those of Kuznets and Phelps, but throughout the emphasis is on the creation of a unified theoretical framework to help explain the impact of technological progress on both a micro and a macro scale.
Innovation and Inequality
Author : Susan Cozzens
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1781951675
Book Description
Susan Cozzens, Dhanaraj Thakur, and the other co-authors ask how the benefits and costs of emerging technologies are distributed amongst different countries _ some rich and some poor. Examining the case studies of five technologies across eight countri
Technology, Society and Inequality
Author : Erika Cudworth
Publisher : Digital Formations
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781433119705
Book Description
This book suggests that the primary purpose of current production and distribution is not to satisfy human needs but to create profit for the owners of capital that in turn has devastating consequences for the environment and for vulnerable people. Multidisciplinary in perspective, contributors to this volume addresses issues of inequality which affect both developed and developing countries.
